US EditionLeonardo DiCaprio Finally Explains Why He's Always Seen Wearing a Face Mask in Public
Leonardo DiCaprio uses hats, masks, and public invisibility to protect his personal life and extend his career, a strategy he has refined since Titanic, he told TIME.
- In a TIME interview published Monday, Dec. 8, Leonardo DiCaprio, 51, said he sometimes goes into hiding to elongate his career, as reported December 9, 2025.
- After Titanic, Leonardo DiCaprio said his life briefly shifted away from acting as he consciously stepped back following intense scrutiny in the late 1990s.
- He routinely hides his face with baseball caps, sunglasses and face masks adopted during the pandemic, wearing hats even with suits and at black-tie events like Jeff Bezos's Venice wedding earlier this year.
- The strategy allows DiCaprio to shrink his public footprint and separate personal life from work, but the film industry still expects promotion, so he appears visibly for press tours and premieres then returns to low-profile mode.
- DiCaprio summed it up: `I think my simple philosophy is only get out there and do something when you have something to say or you have something to show for it`, and he attended the Met Gala this year with Vittoria Ceretti, Italian supermodel.
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This is what Leonardo DiCaprio thinks he should do and explains it very well to TIME by talking about the look that, inevitably, he chooses for the unofficial exits: glasses and hat. So many times we have seen him hidden behind a baseball cap that by now could almost be a uniform, to be replicated as a carnival disguise. He explains it like this: "It is a balance that I have tried to keep for my entire adult life, yet I am not yet an expert. I t…
He is one of the world's most famous actors – but his face is rarely seen in public. Now Leonardo DiCaprio explains why.
Leonardo DiCaprio Hints at Why He Covers His Face In Public
Leonardo DiCaprio is no stranger to worldwide fame... And that's why he chooses to hide. The Academy-award winning actor opened up about his relationship to fame after being named TIME's Entertainer of the Year and how he tackles being in the public eye.
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