Leo's was already a name that was on the lips of everyone that mattered in Hollywood when he stepped into the role of Romeo Montague.
He had already impressed the industry with his work in What's Eating Gilbert Grape and The Basketball Diaries - and his boyish good looks didn't do him any harm either.After Romeo And Juliet catapulted him even further into the limelight, he was cast as Jack Dawson in Titanic alongside Kate Winslet's Rose DeWitt Bukater and keeping the theme of an epic romance marred by tragedy did the trick.Leo has since become one of the biggest names in Hollywood, spanning decades.
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