Leonardo DiCaprio Slept In Animal Carcasses To Prepare For His Latest Film

Leo DiCaprio has taken acting to the next level in preparation for his role in 'The Revenant' by literally sleeping inside some dead animals.

A crew member for the film has told The Hollywood Reporter that the shoot was a “living hell” as everyone worked through blizzards and frozen terrains each day.

Leo himself though, he made some pretty amazing individual sacrifices for the film.

In the movie the 40-year-old plays a 19th century frontiersman who, after being left for dead when he’s attacked by a bear, goes on a revenge driven rampage to find the man who left him in the snow (Tom Hardy).

Leo has revealed in an interview that his own personal journey was just as harrowing as the one his character experiences in the film.

"I can name 30 or 40 sequences that were some of the most difficult things I’ve ever had to do. Whether it’s going in and out of frozen rivers, or sleeping in animal carcasses, or what I ate on set. [I was] enduring freezing cold and possible hypothermia constantly."

He even had to eat some horrific things... "I certainly don’t eat raw bison liver on a regular basis. When you see the movie, you’ll see my reaction to it, because Alejandro (the film's director) kept it in. It says it all. It was an instinctive reaction."

We hope this might help Leo get that very well-deserved and long-awaited Oscar!