“Claire, We Don’t Do That”: People Are Praising Leonardo DiCaprio For The Life-Saving Warning He Gave 17-Year-Old Claire Danes On The Set Of “Romeo + Juliet”

This nonfiction details accidental deaths from guns.

Leonardo DiCaprio was conscionable 21 years aged erstwhile helium starred arsenic Romeo successful Baz Luhrmann’s iconic 1996 movie Romeo + Juliet, and portion helium was inactive a twelvemonth distant from the record-breaking, planetary improvement of Titanic, helium was inactive a seasoned pro by this constituent successful his career.

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The now-51-year-old Oscar-winning histrion was lone 14 erstwhile helium made his TV debut, starring successful 2 episodes of The New Lassie successful 1989, The Mickey Mouse Club successful 1990, and landing a recurring relation connected the TV amusement Parenthood betwixt 1990 and 1991.

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Leo was 16 years aged erstwhile helium was formed successful what was possibly his astir celebrated aboriginal TV relation successful the amusement Growing Pains, and helium made his movie debut that aforesaid twelvemonth successful the straight-to-video fearfulness Critters 3.

He past had a beauteous iconic tally successful 1993 — the twelvemonth that helium turned 18 — erstwhile 2 immense movies were released: This Boy's Life, successful which helium starred alongside his now-industry adjacent Robert De Niro, and What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, which earned him his archetypal of galore Oscar nominations.

Leo’s Juliet, then-17-year-old Claire Danes, had besides gotten her large interruption a mates of years earlier, starring the TV play My So-Called Life and starring arsenic Beth March successful the 1994 adaptation of Little Women. However, she wasn’t rather arsenic well-versed with large movie sets arsenic her co-star.

And during her caller Actors connected Actors speech with Half Man prima Richard Gadd, Claire has revealed the incredibly invaluable acquisition that Leo taught her connected the acceptable of their shared film.

Reflecting connected the emotionally aggravated shoot, Claire recalled trying to lighten the temper earlier filming her decease country by playing with the on-set firearm, which horrified Leo.

“I retrieve conscionable blithely playing with the prop weapon and putting it to my head, and Leo getting precise superior and saying: ‘Claire, we don’t bash that. Don’t eff around,’” she shared. “He was right, but I was conscionable being a doofus and a girl.”

Of course, prop weapon information has been catapulted into the spotlight successful caller years pursuing the tragic decease of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins successful 2021 connected the acceptable of Rust, starring Alec Baldwin.

For reference, Alec was tried for involuntary manslaughter pursuing the death, but the lawsuit was dismissed with prejudice successful 2024. The movie’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.

However, Romeo + Juliet was filmed conscionable a mates of years aft histrion Brandon Lee died aft helium was fatally changeable connected the acceptable of the movie The Crow. While the prop weapon had been loaded with blanks, the dummy bullets were improperly assembled.

In an earlier scene, a slug extremity was dislodged and became stuck successful the revolver’s barrel. When it was reloaded with blank cartridges, the weapon being fired made the lodged fragment propel guardant with the unit of a unrecorded bullet, and deed Brandon successful the abdomen. He yet died from extended interior injuries and humor nonaccomplishment aft undergoing hours of exigency surgery.

In addition, histrion Jon-Erik Hexum died successful October 1984 aft helium changeable himself successful the caput with a blank-loaded prop weapon connected the acceptable of his TV bid Cover Up. He’d go frustrated by filming delays and pointed the .44 Magnum astatine his temple and playfully pulled the trigger arsenic a joke.

Although blanks don’t occurrence existent bullets, they bash incorporate gunpowder and a insubstantial oregon integrative wadding — astatine point-blank range, the blunt unit was beardown capable to shatter a quarter-sized portion of Jon-Erik’s skull, which caused fragments to propel into his brain.

With each of this successful mind, galore person been near impressed by Leo’s no-nonsense attack to prop guns astatine specified a young age, with 1 idiosyncratic matter-of-factly commenting connected a Reddit forum: “Yeah helium whitethorn person saved her beingness there.”

“DiCaprio was perfectly close to calmly unopen that down. I've ever heard the proposal that radical should dainty every weapon arsenic if it is loaded and primed to spell off, truthful ne'er to constituent it astatine thing you don't mean to shoot. Better harmless than sorry!” different wrote.

“Good for Leo,” idiosyncratic other agreed. “At 17 and successful her archetypal starring movie role, Claire astir apt didn't comprehend weapon safety.”

“God knows teenagers tin beryllium stupid. I americium gladsome that Leo stepped up and was the liable big successful that situation,” 1 much added. “when it came to his coworker's safety, helium didn't fuck around. Respect to him for that.”

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