“The Revenant” is full of blood and gore, and it turns out, so was Leonardo DiCaprio‘s mouth on set.
The actor told NBC’s “Today” in an interview broadcast Thursday morning that the raw bison liver audiences watch his character eat in one scene isn’t a prop.
“The native American actor I was working with, his name is Arthur, he was eating raw bison flesh the entire day during rehearsal, and [then] they gave me this red gelatinous sort of pancake to eat, and it just didn’t look real,” DiCaprio said. “I wanted to get the real thing, and it was this giant liver that was incredibly disgusting.