In a new interview with GQ UK, “Before The Flood” director Fisher Stevens reveals that Leonardo DiCaprio almost drowned filming the documentary.
“The second time we hung out was in 2010 when I was invited to film Sylvia Earle for a TED conference expedition to the Galapagos. Leo was on the expedition.” Fisher says.
“I was filming Sylvia and I had this little easy camera to shoot underwater and he was Sylvia’s diving buddy, so I said, ‘Would you film Sylvia? And he said, ‘Yeah, I love it, man. I love it.'”
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Fisher adds, “I was diving buddies with Edward Norton. So we go down and we see 300 eagle rays and spotted rays and it was an amazing dive. Leo bolts away with Sylvia and Edward goes in front of me and the next thing I know, after twenty minutes I’d lost them all.”
“Then I see Leo barely breathing because Leo’s tank was leaking oxygen and Edward had to save him…. It was pretty crazy, but he actually did get some film for me and it was good for a second and then it got pretty shaky when he couldn’t breathe, but we really bonded on that trip.”
Note to self: Edward Norton makes a great diving buddy.
