DiCaprio considered quitting acting over 'cute meat' image

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NEW YORK (AFP) — Hollywood heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio considered quitting acting for a while after filming "Titanic," saying the blockbuster movie made him feel like a "piece of cute meat." DiCaprio, now 32, was in his early 20s when the film came out and tells the latest edition of Newsweek magazine that the role threw him back into the mold of teen idol -- an image he had been trying to shake off.

"I had a brief run at that on television, being thrown on the cover of teen magazines," DiCaprio says in the roundtable discussion, which also features Hollywood stars Brad Pitt, Forest Whitaker and Cate Blanchett. "I was trying to work away from that. I wanted to establish myself as an actor who put a lot of thought into his characters and did good work. "And then I did a...