Editor’s note: Leonardo DiCaprio won his first Academy Award for his lead role in “The Revenant” on Feb. 28, his sixth career nomination.
Leonardo DiCaprio as an adult is a heartthrob, a smooth talker, a romancer of supermodels. Leonardo DiCaprio as a teenager was so nervous around girls that he turned to his “Growing Pains” co-star Alan Thicke for flirting advice.
“He said, ‘How do I get her number?’ ” Thicke recalls two decades later, remembering when 17-year-old DiCaprio had a crush on a cute extra. The veteran actor told DiCaprio to look in the wardrobe department, where everyone’s contact information was posted on a wall. “I’m sure he feels he owes most of his adult social life to that tip.”