Leonardo DiCaprio Talks about 'Inception'

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio shares his opinion on his latest movie 'Inception'. He admits that it's not a script he managed to grasp first time round.

"It took multiple reads," says DiCaprio. "But it really was about being able to sit down with Chris Nolan and delve into his mind."

Inception is Nolan's cerebral sci-fi follow-up to his Batman epic The Dark Knight, which has gainedmore than $1bn at the global box office.

DiCaprio plays  Dom Cobb, the leader of a team of thieves who raid secrets from other people's dreams.

Other cast includes Sir Michael Caine, Ellen Page, Cillian Murphy and Marion Cotillard.

The movie is a sure bet action packed taking place within dream worlds. There is bunch of scope for some eye-popping set-pieces.

You will see a freight train appearing out of nowhere on a busy Los Angeles street. A whole city folds itself over like a paper.

Even for a film set in several dream worlds, Nolan  has kept computer tricks balanced, not really overdoing it.

There was a  scene, where DiCaprio and Ellen Page  are sitting outside a Paris cafe when the whole street explodes around them, while the actors were right in the middle of it.

"We were there," confirms DiCaprio. "He doesn't use a lot of green screen - he's a very cutting-edge film maker, but he's very old school in his approach. He immerses his actors right into those environments and makes you react as if you were there."

Several of the sets were built to spin and tilt to attain some of the film's zero gravity scenes. When asked how it feels to be thrown around?

"There was a long dialogue between Cillian and myself - four or five pages - and the whole set was on hydraulics. It gave a whole sense of urgency to the scene.

DiCaprio has dealt and worked with several of the greatest directors on the planet: Martin Scorsese (Gangs of New York, The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island), James Cameron (Titanic) and Steven Spielberg (Catch Me If You Can).

So when asked how was it with Nolan? the actor answered, "There's a certain calm and ease that he has," says DiCaprio.

"You'd think that someone who's been able to pull of such ambitious high concept films would be frenetic and mad, but the man simply knows what he's doing.

"I remember watching Memento and Insomnia years and years ago and being fascinated by the multi-dimensional plot structures that unfolded before my eyes."

Inception is out in the UK on the 16th of July.