Leonardo DiCaprio talks role in Alejandro G. Iñárritu's “The Revenant”

PanARMENIAN.Net - Leonardo DiCaprio was pushed to the limit in The Revenant, as he revealed that he had to sleep in animal carcasses and eat raw bison liver for the movie.

The Hollywood star offered a glimpse of what he had to endure while taking on the lead role in Alejandro González Iñárritu's upcoming thriller, Digital Spy reports.

"I can name 30 or 40 sequences that were some of the most difficult things I've ever had to do - whether it's going in and out of frozen rivers, or sleeping in animal carcasses, or what I ate on set," he told Yahoo.

"[I was] enduring freezing cold and possible hypothermia constantly."

When asked what he had to eat for the film, DiCaprio replied: "I certainly don't eat raw bison liver on a regular basis.

"When you see the movie, you'll see my reaction to it, because Alejandro kept it in. It says it all. It was an instinctive reaction."

The Revenant stars DiCaprio as 19th century fur trapper Hugh Glass, who is left for dead by his three companions (Tom Hardy, Will Poulter and Domhnall Gleeson) when he is mauled by a bear.

The screenplay was adapted from Michael Punke's 2002 novel of the same name.