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DiCaprio: 'Thank God' my life is not like Jay Gatsby's
Leonardo DiCaprio told Daybreak's Kate Garraway that he has looked on his experience of filming The Great Gatsby as "an incredible opportunity that I don't want to squander and I look at it as an incredible gift."
When asked if he could identify with his character Jay Gatsby's party lifestyle he said: "I have been to some parties in my life and I have been to premieres but thank God that is not my life 24 hours a day, thank God!"
DiCaprio: Gatsby is compulsory reading in US schools
Leonardo Di Caprio has emphasised the importance of The Great Gatsby novel in the United States.
Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival he said: "Gatsby is compulsory reading in secondary school.
"People today still try to dissect this novel, to interpret every line, it's a kind of endless quest. We wanted to re-shape the novel's characters. It is so exciting to work with a text of this calibre."
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Audrey Tatou pays homage to Spielberg's E.T.
Audrey Tatou, the host of the 66th Cannes Film Festival opening ceremony paid homage to Steven Spielberg's E.T. in her speech last night. She said:
"Hearts that are ready to be charmed, moved, amazed, stopped, whether or not they are all decked out for the occasion, hearts here and elsewhere, hearts that have loved cinema ever since the day that a film, the first one, transported them to seventh heaven."
She added that for her, that film was E.T., and this strange creature "that kept on repeating Call home, call home".
Gatsby creator's granddaughter praises Luhrmann film
The granddaughter of F Scott Fitzgerald has praised Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of her grandfather's book The Great Gatsby.
Speaking at Cannes, about his experience at the film's première in the United States, the director said:
"At the end of the film, a woman looked at me and and said 'I've come from Vermont to see what you did with my grandfather's book.' I froze. She added: 'I think Scott would have been proud of this film.' It's the best compliment I've received."
Luhrmann added that he read the book whilst on a train in Siberia, "I had a copy of the novel. I read it. That's how everything started," he said.
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Cannes judges: What are they looking for in a film?
The Cannes jury have given their opinion on what they will be looking for as they judge the winners of this year's festival.
Steven Spielberg said: "My opinion is very straightforward, we are always judging, we are constantly judging films we see at the cinema, evaluating them and trying to see what is radically new in them. Films are always in competition with each other for audiences' attention."
Nicole Kidman said: "I think that it is important to contribute to the celebration of film. I finally had the time to sit down and watch films. Cannes is a prestigious festival that has done a lot to promote the films in which I have acted."
Christoph Waltz said: "An award is always the result, but the result of what? Good psychoanalysis involves both a psychoanalyst and a patient. We each of us have our way of carrying out our task and mine is perhaps more descriptive than Cristian's."
Stars attend The Great Gatsby premiere at Cannes
The stars of Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby have lined the red carpet in Cannes for the film's festival premiere.
Leonardo DiCaprio plays Jay Gatsby in Luhrmann's 3D extravaganza which also stars British actress Carey Mulligan and Isla Fisher.
The film, which is an adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's novel, opened the 66th Cannes Film Festival in the South of France.
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Spielberg and Kidman arrive for Cannes Film Festival
Director Steven Spielberg and actress Nicole Kidman have arrived in the French Riviera for the opening ceremony of the 66th Cannes festival.
Spielberg will preside over the jury that will choose the winner of the prestigious Palme d'Or award. Twenty films are to be considered overall.
The first film to be shown will be Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire.
Watch: DiCaprio: We all identify with Gatsby in a weird way
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Stars arrive for The Great Gatsby premiere in Cannes
The stars of the Baz Luhrmann film The Great Gatsby are arriving at its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
The 3D adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's novel, which stars British actress Carey Mulligan, is opening the festival in the South of France.
Speaking about the event Leonardo DiCaprio said "Every time I go to Cannes, it feels like I'm entering the helicopter scene in La Dolce Vita. It's an insane experience".
"The entire town is turned into a red carpet. Every hotel is a premier. But at the same time, it is the Mecca for the world to celebrate film-making and bold film-making."
Read: The Great Gatsby to open the 66th Cannes Film Festival
The Great Gatsby to open Cannes Film Festival
Baz Luhrmann's glittering adaptation of The Great Gatsby will open the Cannes Film Festival tonight.
Read the full storyDiCaprio: We all identify with Gatsby in a weird way
Leonardo DiCaprio has admitted to identifying with his character Jay Gatsby because he was a childhood dreamer.
Directed by Baz Luhrmann, the Great Gatsby centres around a young and mysterious millionaire and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, in the summer of 1922.
Speaking to Daybreak DiCaprio said: "I think we all identify with Jay Gatsby in a weird way, we all have childhood dreams and as a youth I dreamt of being an actor, for as long as I can remember."
Speaking about the film's director, who worked with DiCaprio on Romeo and Juliet, he said: "I know Baz has a little Gatsby in him, he's created his own life according to his own imagination for sure."
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