Berlin International Film Festival | 12 February

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Entrance: Day 4: Press Conference

The Beach

Leomania

The Beach press conference

Leonardo DiCaprio. Question after question was lobbed in Leo's direction, but there was hardly a peep from anybody else. At one stage, festival director Moritz de Hadeln took the microphone in a forlorn attempt to remind the press that this wasn't a "private press conference" for the star ­ but to no avail.

"It's something that I've accepted that I have no control over," DiCaprio remarked of his status as the world's favourite bobbysox idol. "This image of who I am is completely separate from me personally... I try to detach myself as much as possible from it. It's the only healthy way to live as a human being and as an actor."

But that was just the beginning. Last night thousands of DiCapriated teenyboppers mobbed the Potsdamer Platz, desperate to get a glimpse of their idol. It was truly a night to remember...

Geoffrey Macnab


Berlin 1999
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