Overview

• In an August Esquire interview conducted by Paul Thomas Anderson, Leonardo DiCaprio confessed that not doing Boogie Nights is his career’s greatest regret.
• DiCaprio said he couldn’t take the role of Eddie Adams/Dirk Diggler because he was already committed to James Cameron’s Titanic, the film that made him a global star.
• Paul Thomas Anderson originally pursued DiCaprio for Boogie Nights after seeing him in The Basketball Diaries before casting Mark Wahlberg, whom DiCaprio praised as irreplaceable.
• Boogie Nights holds a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and earned three Oscar nominations, cementing its status as a defining work of 1990s cinema.
• DiCaprio and Anderson will finally collaborate on One Battle After Another, an action thriller due in U.S. theaters on September 26 in which he plays a former revolutionary confronting his past.