Actor Leonardo DiCaprio will attend as witness to testify in the lawsuit that a man has interposed who affirms that a character is based on him, and that he is presented as a criminal and a degenerate.
The applicant is Andrew Greene, a former associate of the film's protagonist, Jordan Belfort. Greene says that one of the secondary characters in the film is literally based on his life, judging him as a criminal.
Although Green's lawyers would have been trying for months to get DiCaprio to come to trial to testify about this, the actor has always declared that he has no space available on his agenda.
The testimonies that Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter have made should suffice. But the DiCaprio's producer status has caused Judge Steven Locke to force him to testify As a Witness.
Recall that «The Wolf of Wall Street " tells the story of Jordan Belfort, a very ambitious young man who becomes a famous Wall Street broker and director of a company. Belfort is willing to do anything to get rich and maintain a lifestyle that he only dreamed of in his youth, and he does so by dealing junk bonds and generating a chain scam, trapping thousands of investors. From there, a life full of drugs, luxury, prostitutes and alcohol.
Moreover, DiCaprio is in today because the writer of "Gladiator" has thought of him to play a Persian poet named Rumi. And this has again generated the controversy of the so-called "whitewashing" in Hollywood, that is, the signing of white actors for characters of a different race.
Apparently, the screenwriter and Oscar winner for Gladiator, David franzoni, has made public his desire to negotiate with DiCaprio to play the Persian poet Jalal al-Din Rumi in a 'biopic' that they are preparing about his life.