Unlike most teen icons, DiCaprio’s leverage as a cinematic powerbroker decreased only negligibly over the next twenty years. He appeared in fewer movies than most of his peers, but any appearance by DiCaprio automatically qualified a picture as substantial. Titanic made him the kind of perpetual movie star that was supposedly a remnant of a different age—the untouchable, unknowable playboy who can only be understood through the scant movie roles he elects to accept. His career is both a contradiction of what is assumed about modern stardom and a living example of how many of those assumptions
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