When the first trailer for Birdman director Alejandro González Iñárritu's latest visual experiment The Revenant dropped earlier this year, it became immediately clear that our guyLeonardo DiCaprio had achieved a new career high in terms of being a confirmed god of acting. In fact, Leo pretty much said so himself: "It was the most difficult film, I think, that any of us have ever done," he said during a recent post-screening Q & A session.
Based on imagery alone, Leo would appear to be speaking the truth. Everyone looks dirty. There's a lot of screaming. And, oh yeah, there's a gigantic bear. Though pre-release clips have hinted at some sort of a violent duel between Leo and the bear, the Drudge Reportis now reporting predictably anonymous claims that it's actually much worse than that:
The new movie 'REVENANT' features a shocking scene of a wild bear raping Leo DiCaprio!
According to these quickly challenged reports, the bear "flips Leo over and thrusts and thrusts during the explicit mauling," raping him twice. During a later scene, Leo reportedly rips open a horse and sleeps nude inside the carcass. Other cinematic scholars, however, disagree. Sleeping nude inside a horse? Yeah. Raped by a bear? Not so fast:
Quickly feeling the wrath of the bear rape rumor, a Fox spokesperson reached out to Entertainment Weekly to promptly squash the whole thing:
As anyone who has seen the movie can attest, the bear in the film is a female who attacks Hugh Glass because she feels he might be threatening her cubs. There is clearly no rape scene with a bear.
Either way, Leo: the Oscar is yours. Just reach out and grab it.
