After joking that DiCaprio had achieved countless career milestones “before your girlfriend turned 30,” Glaser admitted she had trouble finding anything personal to work with. “We don’t know anything else about you, man,” she quipped, adding, “I looked! I searched! The most in?depth interview you’ve ever given was in Teen Beat magazine in 1991. Is your favorite food still ‘pasta, pasta and more pasta?'”
The reference sparked laughter in the room as cameras caught DiCaprio smiling, nodding, and giving a thumbs?up to confirm the anecdote, yes, he had really written that. In the original Teen Beat questionnaire, a 17?year?old DiCaprio listed “pasta, pasta and more pasta” as his favourite food, a response that’s now gone viral thanks to the Golden Globes moment.
That interview, published in the now?defunct teen magazine back in 1991 when DiCaprio was just starting out, offered other charming, quirky insights into the young actor long before blockbuster fame. Alongside the pasta confession, the teenaged DiCaprio named Jack Nicholson as his favourite actor and Meg Ryan as his favourite actress. He also cited Lord of the Flies as his favourite book and said his hobby was collecting fossils, even though he thought math was his worst subject, all details that fans later shared widely online after Glaser’s joke brought them back into the spotlight.
Born in Los Angeles, DiCaprio began his career in the late 1980s by appearing in television commercials. He had a recurring role in the sitcom Parenthood (19901991), and had his first major film part as author Tobias Wolff in This Boy’s Life (1993). He received critical acclaim and his first Academy Award nomination for playing a developmentally disabled boy in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). DiCaprio achieved international stardom with the star-crossed romances Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Titanic (1997). After the latter became the highest-grossing film in the world at the time, he reduced his workload for a few years. In an attempt to shed his image of a romantic hero, DiCaprio sought roles in other genres, including the 2002 crime dramas Catch Me If You Can and Gangs of New York; the latter marked the first of his many successful collaborations with director Martin Scorsese.
DiCaprio continued to gain acclaim for his performances in the biopic The Aviator (2004), the political thriller Blood Diamond (2006), the crime drama The Departed (2006), and the romantic drama Revolutionary Road (2008). He later made environmental documentaries and starred in several high-profile directors’ successful projects, including the thrillers Inception and Shutter Island (both 2010); the western Django Unchained (2012); the romantic drama The Great Gatsby (2013) for which he won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role; the biopic The Wolf of Wall Street (2013); the survival drama The Revenant (2015), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor; the comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019); and the crime dramas Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) and One Battle After Another (2025).