Director Adam McKay explained why Leonardo DiCaprio didn't want Meryl Streep to get n@k-d in the movie 'Don't Look Up'.
In her latest work Don't Look Up, Meryl Streep has the opportunity to play a President of the United States and also star in a moment that is rarely seen on screen when it comes to a character of a certain age.
The veteran performer was more than willing to take her clothes off on camera at 72, but she ultimately ended up using a body double to shoot that scene.
The reason? Her co-star Leonardo DiCaprio didn't even want to hear about the possibility of her actually stripping in the Netflix production.
"It's just that for him it's like royalty in the world of cinema. Although it may not be exactly a compliment to define her as royalty... but he does consider her a very important figure in the history of the seventh art," explained the film's director, Adam McKay, to try to justify the actor's reaction during an interview with The Guardian newspaper.
Specifically, it seems that DiCaprio was especially uncomfortable with the idea of turning Meryl into someone who did not deserve the utmost respect, even if it was due to the script's demands, but instead she did not care in the least to let go of the elegance that she projects in real life.
"I didn't want to see her with a tattoo on her lower back, walking around N-, even for a moment. I sort of wondered if we really had to show her that way. I told her it wasn't really Meryl Streep, it was President Orleans. But she didn't blink, didn't even mention it," McKay added.
Don't Look Up revolves around scientists Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), who discover evidence that a destructive meteorite is heading toward Earth and will wipe out humanity within 6 months. Desperate to alert the government and the entire world of what is coming. From the president (Meryl Streep) to a couple of well-known television hosts (Blanchett and Perry). Unfortunately, no one takes them serially to the very end.
The film is raised as a satire on the climate and environmental crisis that the planet is going through, to which are added the recent events that were unleashed by the pandemic.
