Leonardo DiCaprio (Titanic, The Great Gatsby, Catch Me If You Can, The Departed) has had a storied Hollywood career, even finally taking home his first — very elusive — Academy Award for The Revenant (2015).
Turning down a starring role in the Star Wars universe, however, seemingly hasn’t deterred DiCaprio’s fandom. His Don’t Look Up costar, Jonah Hill (Superbad, 21 Jump Street), recently spoke out about how the What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? actor convinced him to watch Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni’sThe Mandalorian.
“Can I go off on a tangent for a second? I don’t watch sci-fi and stuff like that, so I had never seen Game of Thrones. Never seen an episode. I started in the past couple of months. I’m on season 4. I used to have a rule: If it didn’t happen or it couldn’t happen, then I just wasn’t interested, because I would lose focus. Leo made me watch The Mandalorian when we were making Don’t Look Up, and it was like, Baby Yoda was so cute, but I just didn’t give a f*** because I didn’t know anything that it was about.”
Although Hill clearly isn’t convinced that The Mandalorian is worth the hype, millions of Star Wars fans would disagree. From almost the moment it debuted, the series — which introduced Grogu (AKA “Baby Yoda”) and bounty hunter Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) into the Star Wars galaxy — has been significantly more popular than the average TV show in the United States.
The full cast is Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Rob Morgan, Jonah Hill, Mark Rylance. Tyler Perry, Timothée Chalamet, Ariana Grande, Scott Mescudi, Michael Chiklis, Melanie Lynskey, Himesh Patel. Tomer Sisley, Paul Guilfoyle, and Robert Joy.
What do you think? Should DiCaprio still join the Star Wars franchise at some point?
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