A closer look
Leonardo DiCaprio genuinely crushed a glass in his hand and bled all over the table during a climactic dinner scene in Django Unchained. Instead of breaking character and asking for a medic like a normal human being, he incorporated the bloody accident into his villainous monologue, terrifying his co-stars and giving Quentin Tarantino the perfect take. Method acting usually just involves annoying your castmates by refusing to shower or speaking in a weird accent off-camera, but sometimes it results in risking a severe tetanus infection just to ensure a bunch of film bros have a cool trivia fact to share at parties
