Claire Danes Reveals Leonardo DiCaprio Stopped Her From Playing With a Prop Gun on the ‘Romeo + Juliet’ Set: ‘Claire, We Don’t Do That. Don’t Eff Around’ (opens in new tab)

Claire Danes has recalled the moment a 21-year-old Leonardo DiCaprio intervened on the set of Romeo + Juliet after catching a teenage Danes absentmindedly playing with a prop gun — issuing a warning she says she still remembers vividly nearly thirty years later. Speaking in Variety’s Emmy Edition Actors on Actors conversation, Danes described casually handling the prop firearm before shooting the scene of Juliet’s suicide, when DiCaprio stepped in: “I remember just blithely playing with the p...