Jack Nicholson is Leonardo DiCaprio`s Hollywood hero

Los Angeles: He may be a superstar in his own right but Hollywood heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio idol worships veteran actor Jack Nicholson.The `Shutter Island` star has a lot of favourites in the world of showbiz but admits that there is no one else like the 72-year-old screen legend, Esquire magazine reported.

"Out of any actor, I can`t think of anyone who`s got more memorable moments in cinema than Jack Nicholson. Jack never takes a single line straight on. Never takes an emotion written in the script at face value. He brings terror into what you thought was supposed to be a light moment and makes a light moment out of a cutthroat vicious line. He flips everything on its side," DiCaprio said. The 35-year-old actor, who acted alongside Nicholson in `The Departed` also remembers one scene with him where he wanted to take a few extra steps to make sure DiCaprio seemed "sincerely threatened". "I come on the set the next day and hear we`re doing the scene over for lighting reasons. But then a prop guy comes over to me and says, `Just to let you know, there were some props Jack asked for. I had to get him a fire extinguisher, a bottle of whiskey, a lighter, and a gun`," DiCaprio said. PTI