Leonardo Di Caprio, star of this summer’s most mentally challenging blockbuster INCEPTION, says that the film presented an immense technical challenge for both the cast and the crew- and it all started by trying to comprehend the complex dream-caper screenplay.
Di Caprio this week told the Hollywood Reporter that even he needed time to figure out the many layers of the story.“I needed to know implicitly where we were,” he says. “It got incredibly confusing at certain points in the beginning, but the more we talked, the more I understood.”
The actor, who played the lead role of Dominic Cobb, spent weeks on end combing through the script with the director and Christopher Nolan’s wife/producing partner said of the star that “The work he did on his character with Chris made the movie less of a puzzle and more of a story of a character audiences could relate to.”
Other technical personnel on the film had their own puzzles to figure out when they had the first view of the top-secret script. Each were locked in a room on the Warners lot where the script was sealed for their first view. In particular, Visual effects supervisor Paul Franklin recalls the note in the script which called for the entire city of Paris collapsing and folding up.
The note on the script for that scene simply said: “The city begins to fold in half.”
“Working with Chris is absolutely great, but he’s very challenging, too,” he said.
Christopher Nolan is currently locked away working on THE DARK KNIGHT RISES which is due in theatres in 2012.
