Claire Danes sagt, Leonardo DiCaprio habe ihr gesagt, sie solle am Set von „Romeo + Julia“ nicht mit Requisitenpistolen spielen: „Claire, das machen wir nicht“
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/claire-danes-leonardo-dicaprio-romeo-juliet-guns-1236780232/
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The Crow with Brandon Lee came out 2 years before to be fair
> “I remember just blithely playing with the prop gun and putting it to my head, and Leo getting very serious and saying, ‘Claire, we don’t do that. Don’t eff around,’” Danes recalls. “He was right, but I was just being a doofus and a girl.”
Oh geez, Claire. What is it with people playfully putting guns to their heads?
This is the version of Romeo and Juliet my high school English teacher decided to show the class.
Crazy, now that I think about it.
Good guy DiCaprio 👍
That’s a very mature and reasonable approach.
Jon-Erik Hexum killed himself with a blank out of prop gun 1984. Never thought a blank could do any damage.
I clearly remember when I heard that Jon-Erik Hexum died on the set of his TV show, Cover Up, back in October of 1984. That was 10 years before Brandon Lee’s death from a blank or prop gun, and 12 years before this movie.
Fact: In 100% of all fake gun-related shootings, the victim is always the one with the fake gun.
There was an incident on one of the Star Wars movies where a couple of Stormtrooper extras were fooling around with prop guns, pointed them directly at their own heads, and missed.
I mean he’s right. You’re suppose to treat any and all guns as if they’re loaded, they’re not toys. Even if they’re prop guns, which doesn’t mean they’re not real btw.
He wanted to make sure she made it to at least 25.
They were shooting this after the Brandon Lee accident, so she should have known better. I made stupid jokes like this like 3-4 times or so with a knife and an empty airsoft gun, when I was a teen or so, I always did it mostly to rile either my dad or my sister up because I know it would work.
It’s a really stupid joke, regardless of who is doing it and when.
To be clear: many „prop“ guns on set (back then) were *real functional firearms* capable of chambering and firing a live bullet.
Anyone who has taken a basic firearm safety lecture learns that the first rule of holding a gun is *ALWAYS TREAT IT AS IF IT IS LOADED.* Always.
Leo did do basketball diaries and quick and the dead before that. He had proper gun safety training.
Too bad he never gave that same speech to Alec Baldwin
Good for him. Very, very good.
There was footage someone filmed of the one battle after another shoot where Leo’s character goes to investigate a car crash. you can see that the armorer (I assume) showed him that the chamber was empty. It took literally a few seconds. It just makes me sad that something so simple wasn’t observed as recently as the Rust shoot.
I don’t think Baldwin intended to do anything dangerous, but actors really should confirm for themselves that it’s safe. It takes seconds.
Honestly, where was the oversight. She should never have been allowed to do that and more than the actor should have intervened. I’d think a set shut down and emergency review to the entire crew when a minor picks up a gun and puts it to her head.
So years ago I played Lennie in Of Mice and Men and the most terrifying thing was at the end when I’m shot in the head. The actor playing George was staged in a way where the gun was near my head and looked to be pointing at me from the audience but wasn’t supposed to be. But if he made a mistake and the armorer made a mistake and/or a combination of the blank having enough energy to kill me and the actor making a mistake. I just wanted to live off the fat of the land. It was terrifying.
Fact: in 100% of all fake gun related shootings, the victim is always the one with the fake gun.
Leo should have told Alec Baldwin that during the set of the Departed
“This here is the eagle-butt peacemaker…”
What about flamethrowers?
„but I was just being a doofus and a girl.“ Wtf?
Also from article:
Danes, famously, joined “Romeo + Juliet” as a replacement; 14-year-old Natalie Portman, who’d been cast in the role at first, was deemed to read too young on camera opposite her adult male costar.
In a 2020 interview, Danes revealed that she’d been pursued to play Rose in “Titanic” but told producers she couldn’t do it. “I was really clear about it, I wasn’t conflicted,” she said then. “I was feeling eager to have different creative experiences and that felt like a repeat and it was going to propel me towards something that I knew I didn’t have the resources to cope with.”
Feel like Leo should’ve talked about firearm safety with another actor
No Community references with Professor Professorson? I’m disappointed, Reddit
That’s standard procedure for film sets.
Treat the gun as if it’s real, even when you’re not rolling.
Should have told Alec
I know a lot of people don’t like this movie, but it’s one of my favorite movies top 10 to me I like weird adaptations like this and O Brother Where art thou
This happened shortly after actor Brandon Lee was accidentally killed by a prop gun on the set of The Crow.
Big thumbs up to Leo!
Actor Jon Erik Hexum was playing Russian Roulette with a pistol loaded with blanks. The gun finally fired, and the blast knocked a chunk of his skull loose, driving it into his brain. In spite of several comprehensive brain surgeries, he was declared brain-dead and life support was turned off six days later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon-Erik_Hexum
Even if a gun is not pointed at you, firing it close to your ear can render that ear completely and permanently deaf.
He should have told Alec Baldwin that.