{"id":81269,"date":"2025-08-14T04:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T04:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/81269\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T04:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T04:10:10","slug":"leonardo-calls-passing-on-boogie-nights-his-biggest-regret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/81269\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo Calls Passing On ‘Boogie Nights’ His “Biggest Regret”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAlthough Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a> is beloved by many for playing Jack Dawson in 1997\u2019s Titanic<\/a>, he regrets passing up on the role of Dirk Diggler that year.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Oscar winner recently admitted to Boogie Nights<\/a> writer\/director Paul Thomas Anderson<\/a> that his \u201cbiggest regret\u201d was not playing the leading character of the teenaged busboy turned adult film icon, who was ultimately portrayed by Mark Wahlberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ll say it even though you\u2019re here: My biggest regret is not doing Boogie Nights,\u201d he said in a conversation for Esquire<\/a>. \u201cIt was a profound movie of my generation. I can\u2019t imagine anyone but Mark in it. When I finally got to see that movie, I just thought it was a masterpiece. It\u2019s ironic that you\u2019re the person asking that question, but it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

\n\tDespite marking his breakout role, Wahlberg has grown to become less fond of the film now that he\u2019s a father. \u201cI just always hope that God is a movie fan and also forgiving, because I\u2019ve made some poor choices in my past. Boogie Nights is up there at the top of the list,\u201d he said<\/a> in 2017.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t want to compromise my artistic integrity or choices based on my faith or my family, but I also have other things to consider, and being a little bit older and a little wiser, the idea of having to explain that movie and the reason behind it to my kids is another issue,\u201d explained Wahlberg.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJack Wallace, Ricky Jay, Nicole Ari Parker, Burt Reynolds, William H. Macy, Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman in \u2018Boogie Nights\u2019 (1997)<\/p>\n

\n\tDiCaprio finally had a chance to work with Anderson on One Battle After Another<\/a>, premiering Sept. 26 in theaters and Imax. He plays a former member of a revolutionary group who turns to his comrades for help finding his missing daughter. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI know One Battle After Another has been on your desk for a long time,\u201d he told Anderson for Esquire. \u201cIt was a personal story for you in a lot of ways and certainly pertinent to the world that we\u2019re living in right now. But ultimately, wanting to do this movie was pretty simple: I\u2019ve been wanting to work with you\u2014Paul\u2014for something like twenty years now, and I loved this idea of the washed-up revolutionary trying to erase his past and disappear and try and live some sort of normal life raising his daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although Leonardo DiCaprio is beloved by many for playing Jack Dawson in 1997\u2019s Titanic, he regrets passing up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[56938,236,88,2942,56939,56940],"class_list":{"0":"post-81269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-boogie-nights","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-leonardo-dicaprio","12":"tag-mark-wahlberg","13":"tag-paul-thomas-anderson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}