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Martin Scorsese Praises Leonardo DiCaprio’s Flirtation Skills
He wasn’t nominated for Best Actor, but he is in the running for Best Flirt in Martin Scorsese’s heart.
At an October 2023 press conference to support the film, Scorsese shared that DiCaprio improvised the line “Well, I don’t know what that was, but it must have been Indian for handsome devil ” in a scene where his character, Ernest Burkhart, is driving Lily Gladstone ’s Mollie Kyle around the Osage reservation. And at a January 26 event at Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian celebrating the film’s ten Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress for Gladstone, and Best Original Song for the Osage singers, Scorsese shared a new story about DiCaprio’s flirty improv skills. They built a bond together during production, but Scorsese’s longtime editor, Thelma Schoonmaker — who wasn’t on set and reviewed footage that Scorsese sent to her daily — thought the film needed one more scene emphasizing Ernest and Mollie’s love story, which the creative team considered the emotional core of the film.
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