HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – Dec. 2, 2015 — (Gephardt Daily) — 20th Century Fox issued a statement this morning in response to an article in “The Drudge Report” saying Leonardo DiCaprio gets raped by a bear in the new film “The Revenant.”
According to Variety, on Tuesday, a report hit Matt Drudge’s Drudge Report that sent the Internet into a frenzy, claiming that DiCaprio’s character in the upcoming movie is victim to a violent rape at the hands of a bear.
The report on Drudge quotes a source saying that “He is raped – twice!,” and claims that people in the audience walked out of theaters in disgust at the scene.
Journalists and other industry figures who have seen the movie subsequently clarified that DiCaprio is not raped, but simply brutally mauled by the bear.
It was then 20th Century Fox joined in and set the record straight by issuing a statement maintaining the Drudge report is incorrect.
“As anyone who has seen the movie can attest, the bear in the film is a female who attacks Hugh Glass because she feels he might be threatening her cubs,” a Fox spokesperson said in a statement to Entertainment Weekly. “There is clearly no rape scene with a bear.”
“The Revenant,” directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and also starring Tom Hardy, debuts in limited release on Christmas Day, and goes wide Jan. 8.
