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Why Crew Hated Working on Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘The Revenant’

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Crew member’s hated working on Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘The Revenant’

When we posted speaking roles casting calls for ‘The Revenant’ we had no idea that Leonardo DiCaprio’s new movie would be the biggest movie of 2015-2016.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s new movie pushed the limit of filmmaking. Director, Alejandro G. Inarritu has many people calling ‘The Revenant’ an Oscar winning movie but, it also made crew members life a “living hell”.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, crew members had the worst experience of their careers.

Crewmembers say they have seen huge turnover, including many who were fired and others who quit. They say the behind-the-scenes drama led Inarritu to bar producer Jim Skotchdopole, who worked with him on Birdman, from the set.

So what made this movie so impossible. Well Alejandro G. Inarritu only wanted to use natural light and real snow. 

Inarritu, 51, made the unusual choice to shoot the film in sequence, using only natural light. While the plan was to film DiCaprio’s trek entirely in Canada, the weather did not cooperate, so the filmmakers now are headed to a location at the tip of Argentina in quest of snow.

The Revenant Director

This is what the director had to say about all of the crew members quitting the movie.

Yes, some left the crew, he says, “but as a director, if I identify a violin that is out of tune, I have to take that from the orchestra.” And while acknowledging that the film has gone over schedule and over budget, he says he is “obsessed” with making movies at a price: “I’m absolutely, even stupidly conscious about it.”

However, lejandro G. Inarritu may not have been the easiest director to work with. “We’d never shoot what we blocked,” says a crewmember. Echoes another: “Everything was indecisive, whether it was this particular actor for this particular role, this costume, this makeup.” Inarritu acknowledges shifts but says, “That’s part of the process. … It’s about incredible precision. … It’s not easy. You have to be sculpting, sculpting, sculpting until you have it.”

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