Leonardo DiCaprio was a fan of Jersey Shore and was excited to meet the cast.
Leonardo DiCaprio loved Jersey Shore
The 51-year-old actor was chatting to former MTV VJ Simon Rex in a club when he realised the stars of the reality show – which chronicled the lives of a group of 20-somethings living in a New Jersey beach house and ran for six seasons from 2009 to 2012 – were sitting at a nearby table, and requested an introduction.
In a preview clip for The Drew Barrymore Show, the host tried to guess if a number of statements about her guest Simon were true.
The first was: “I introduced Leonardo DiCaprio to the Jersey Shore cast at a club.”
Drew briefly hesitated before guessing it was true, and Simon replied: “That happened, yeah.”
He explained he was at a club and saw the Oscar-winning actor so went over to his table.
He said: “I’m not friends with Leo, but I’d say ‘What’s up’ to him.
“[Leo] goes, ‘Is that the Jersey Shore guys over there?’
Simon asked: “Did you watch that? ”
Leonardo confirmed he did, and said: “I wanna meet them.”
Simon added: “So I brought him over. They were just blown away like, ‘He knows who we are,’ and it was just this funny moment where he was talking to them.”
He quipped: “I just sat back, like, I did my work. I’m done here.”
Drew noted: “Pop culture meets pop culture.”
Meanwhile, Killers of the Flower Moon actor Leonardo recently expressed his fear for the future of cinema as a result of the rise in popularity of streaming services.
He told the Sunday Times Culture magazine: “It’s changing at a lightning speed.
“We’re looking at a huge transition. First, documentaries disappeared from cinemas. Now, dramas only get finite time and people wait to see it on streamers. I don’t know.
“Do people still have the appetite? Or will cinemas become silos — like jazz bars?”
His One Battle After Another director Paul Thomas Anderson agreed: “It’s hand-to-hand combat.”
The Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood actor is worried the rise to drive people away from cinemas and back into their own home will have a negative impact on “real visionaries”.
He said: “I just hope enough people, who are real visionaries, get opportunities to do unique things in the future that are seen in the cinema. But that remains to be seen.”
