Casting Portman In This Movie Caused Big Problems #NataliePortman #LeonardoDiCaprio #AgeGap

When director Baz Luhrmann took on the artistic challenge of modernizing Shakespeare's 16th-century play "Romeo and Juliet", he originally had cast then-14-year-old Natalie Portman. The age was fitting for the original character, but when a 21-year-old DiCaprio came into the picture, the problematic age gap quickly became apparent.