"For me the reward has been all of it. Just getting the script done was a type of reward, my crew together was a type of reward, getting everybody to come to New Orleans, getting to share the screenplay, I shared it with Rosemary like I always do, getting good feedback from her. And then showing the movie to audiences, which is the biggest reward I could ask for," Coogler said.
"The most impressive thing is that you've been able to accomplish all of this before your girlfriend turned 30," she said as the punchline. However, she quickly apologized for the "cheap" joke, before blaming DiCaprio himself because the public knows nothing else about him. "The most in-depth interview you've given was for Teen Beat magazine in 1991," she joked. "Is your favorite food still 'pasta, pasta, and more pasta?'"
"We're still working on it." "We're a ways away from production." "It tips its hat to Heat." "It's an homage to Heat." "It picks up the story from Heat." "It's set in the future, and the past." "It is its own silo, in a sense." "It can't duplicate what Heat was." "It's giving it its own unique entity." Well, glad that's all cleared up!
A movie star in an age without movie stars, Leonardo DiCaprio has always felt like something of an anachronism. Strange as that might be to say about an actor whose angel-kissed image once felt as endemic to the late '90s as mom jeans and the Macarena, his defining roles - even from the beginning - were predicated upon creating a palpable disconnect between the past and the present.