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Titanic star Leonardo DiCaprio wants to play role of Joseph Stalin

The 35-year-old Titanic star told Russian daily Komsomolskaya Pravda: "I'd love to play Stalin very much. However, it is all about a script and there is no such script at the moment."

DiCaprio's Russian grandmother survived the Soviet era with its political purges, mass killings and all powerful secret police.

"My grandmother was telling me about the Second World War, the Gulags and other Russian tragedies.

"I really do not know whether I'll ever be able to play the role and there is no screenplay for that yet," he added....
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)