Economics March 2014 Grade 12 Question Papaers
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Yes, it's acting – but DiCaprio also lived it. The nine-month shoot in Canada and Argentina was so tough that some of the crew have described it as 'a living hell'. You put yourself through a lot making 'The Revenant'. In one scene your character is so hungry that he eats raw liver. Did you do that? Eat raw liver? 'I did. Because the fake liver they gave me didn't look real. Arthur, the Native American actor I was working with, had been eating liver all day while I was sitting there eating a big piece of Play-Doh. I had to give it a shot. But I only did it twice, and my reaction is up on screen. That's instinct. ' 'It's almost a religious experience when you go to a place like the Amazon and there's no civilisation for thousands of miles' It's a gruelling movie to watch. On a scale of one to ten, how tough was it to make? 'Ten. But we all knew what we were signing up for. We couldn't recreate this with CGI. We all knew that we were stepping into a "Fitzcarraldo", "Heart of Darkness" type of experience. '