Leo DiCaprio to play multiple personalities

The sign of a good actor is that they can play a variety of roles. Far from being typecast, the likes of Meryl Streep, Daniel Day Lewis, and even Bradley Cooper of late, prove they’re brilliant at their craft whenever they deliver a role not tackled previously, and as far from their real-life selves as can be.

For an actor to play a character with multiple personality, then, well – that’s a dream job. And it’s a job Leo DiCaprio has landed this week.

The Oscar-nominated actor will star as Billy Milligan in the forthcoming film, The Crowded Room, a bio-pic about a guy with 24 different personalities who was the first person to successfully use multiple personality disorder as a defence in court.

In the 1970s, Milligan pleaded not guilty to several accounts of rape and robbery by reason of insanity, and was subsequently laid free of said charges. A best-selling book about his life was published in 1981, and it’s this version of events the film is mostly based on.

Already critics are saying this could be the year Leo DiCaprio, who has also landed the lead role in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s The Revenant, will walk away with an Oscar.  Antonino Tati