Leonardo DiCaprio wore fake butt to get spanked by Robert De Niro in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
nypost.commoon was fully protected.Leonardo DiCaprio took extra precautions for his spanking scene with Robert De Niro in “Killers of the Flower Moon” by wearing butt padding.“I do remember doing them quite a few times and thinking, ‘Oh, that must hurt,’ cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto said in an interview with Insider published on Tuesday, of the scene between DiCaprio, 48, and De Niro, 80. “There was some padding on [DiCaprio’s] butt.
But you could tell De Niro was really hitting him.”Prieto, 57, added that DiCaprio was “game for so much” and that he would “do anything” for the film.Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of “Killers of the Flower Moon” is based on the critically acclaimed 2017 nonfiction book by David Grann that recalls the murders of the indigenous people in Osage County, Oklahoma, during the 1920s.
DiCaprio plays Ernest Burkhart, the nephew of businessman William Hale (De Niro) who came up with a devious plan to kill a wealthy Osage family after oil was found on their land.The wealthy family happens to be related to Ernest’s wife Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone).
In addition to telling the story of the formation of the FBI and its investigation into the Osage Nation murders, the film also tells Ernest and Mollie’s love story.However, Ernest fumbled part of his uncle’s plan and received the punishment of being spanked with a paddle.
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