The award-winning film star Leonardo DiCaprio developed an interest in acting because he says he wanted to “get out of [his] neighbourhood”.

Speaking to Jennifer Lawrence in an interview, DiCaprio said, “I think a lot of my propulsion to want to act as a kid was to get out of my neighbourhood. My stepbrother did a lot of commercials. I was like, ‘Wait a minute, you can get paid to do that? I got to get out of this place.’ I was [our] stage mom, pushing my parents to take me on auditions. I told them, ‘This is going to be my college fund to get me money to try to have some sort of career in something.’ I didn’t book anything for a while.”