- Adam McKay claimed that DiCaprio visited the edit room and helped to create the final line.
- DiCaprio was also present and stated: “Don’t you have to try that line?'”McKay spoke to Insider
- DiCaprio created the “we really did have everything”While on the set, line.
“Don’t Look Up”Director Adam McKay thanks Leonardo DiCaprio for his visit to the editing area for the moving final line at the film’s end.
As the Earth’s doom draws near, Randall Mindy from DiCaprio turns to his friends and says: “We really did have everything, didn’t we? I mean, when you think about it.”
“In the edit, it was Leo who pushed us to put the line in,”McKay spoke to Insider
“The line was so devastating,” McKay continued. “We were trying to get the balance of that ending just right. You don’t want to traumatize the audience but you want it to hit them. So we didn’t have that line in, and this is nearing final cut. We don’t have much time left.”
McKay, Hank Corwin, and McKay were busy frantically finishing the ending. DiCaprio arrived for a visit, said the director.
“Leo was there and said, ‘Don’t you have to try that line? It really felt powerful when we did it,'”McKay, recalling the “we really did have everything” line.
“I was afraid to use it and we put it before a test screening and it just landed,”McKay added. “So I thanked Leo for pushing me on that. That’s really the line of the movie.”
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McKay had previously stated to Variety that this line wasn’t in his original script. It was a line that DiCaprio had come up with on the day of filming the dinner scene.
McKay told Insider what Lawrence’s original line was in his script.
“Originally the line was Jen saying ‘Well, we tried,'”McKay added. “And it was Leo who was like, ‘No, it feels like it needs to be something else.’ So he didn’t just come up with it, he came into the edit and told us to try it.”
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