“Will cinemas become silos—like jazz bars?”

The Last Movie Star

Leonardo DiCaprio and the director Paul Thomas Anderson discuss their Oscar-tipped hit, One Battle After Another, the future of cinema—and whether Jack really had to die in Titanic

By Jonathan Dean

Leonardo DiCaprio has come to London on what seems to be a sophisticated middle-aged gentleman’s cultural tour of Europe. First stop, Bologna, Italy, for Radiohead, where, I point out, the band did their only performance of the Romeo + Juliet song “Talk Show Host” on the recent tour. Was that for DiCaprio?

“I don’t think so,” he says. He hums the riff. “You know, I’m just thinking about it.” It seems the penny has dropped. “Yeah, that’s right.” Then he flew to the UK for the Peter Doig exhibition at the Serpentine and the Kerry James Marshall at the Royal Academy.