20 times actors had to learn insane skills for a role

11) Leonardo DiCaprio learned intense survival skills for The Revenant (2015)

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Leonardo DiCaprio’s role as Hugh Glass in The Revenant pushed him to endure extreme conditions to authentically portray a frontiersman struggling to survive in the 1820s wilderness. DiCaprio learned survival skills like building fires and constructing shelters and even ate raw bison liver despite being a vegetarian. Filming in harsh natural environments, he braved freezing rivers, endured bitter cold, and slept in animal carcasses, all under director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s insistence on using only natural light. DiCaprio’s intense performance earned him his long-awaited Academy Award, marking a defining moment in his career.

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