Saturday, March 3, 2012

Newcomer Learns The Hard Way On Set of `Life'

Some boys have all the luck. Leonardo DiCaprio beat out morethan 400 young actors to play Robert De Niro's stepson in "This Boy'sLife" (opening April 23).

Great, right? Well, for this boy, life turned into a movieshoot where De Niro was smashing him in the guts, slamming him to thekitchen floor and swearing he would "pop his head like a zit."

The joys of being a child actor! "De Niro was really nice aboutbeating me up. I was never hurt," says DiCaprio, 18, with a smile onhis face. "For three weeks straight, we had to roll around thekitchen floor for the abuse scenes. After the director would yell,`cut,' De Niro was immediately helping me up, brushing off my …

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