Poor Leonardo DiCaprio.
He wants an Oscar so desperately that he is willing to sleep inside a dead animal for a chance at recognition.
DiCaprio recently sat down with Yahoo! Movies to discuss his upcoming film, The Revenant, a true-life story about an early 19th century frontiersman buried alive after suffering a bear attack. The Oscar nominee teamed up with director Alejandro G. Iñárritu for the film, due out on Dec. 25.
The grueling shoot required DiCaprio and the crew to spend days in the freezing Canadian and Argentinian wilderness. Naturally, things got a little weird:
"I can name 30 or 40 sequences that were some of the most difficult things I’ve ever had to do," DiCaprio said. "Whether it’s going in and out of frozen rivers, or sleeping in animal carcasses, or what I ate on set. [I was] enduring freezing cold and possible hypothermia constantly."
And by "what I ate," DiCaprio meant raw meat.
"I certainly don’t eat raw bison liver on a regular basis," he said. "When you see the movie, you’ll see my reaction to it, because Alejandro kept it in. It says it all. It was an instinctive reaction."
We won't know whether or not these sacrifices will snag the actor an Oscar nod until 2016. Until then, Leo will spend most of his free time looking like this: