Hindsight is 20/20 and we suspect the producers of the early ’90s erotic thriller Poison Ivy want they might return and make a fast change.

Whereas the considerably sleazy Drew Barrymore-led thriller was sufficient of successful in its day to encourage three sequels, one wonders how way more beloved it might be if it stayed in its preliminary type, and included a monologue from future Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio.

As DiCaprio advised Marc Maron throughout an look on the WTF podcast a while in the past, “My first position in an precise film was with Sara Gilbert and Drew Barrymore and it was referred to as Poison Ivy. And I had an entire monologue insulting Sara Gilbert, and I tousled my strains.”

He continued, “I feel I used to be 12 or 13 years previous. Screwed up my strains after which they stated, ‘OK, child, simply stroll in and look at her and say, ‘Issues.’ I stated, ‘Simply issues?’ And I walked in and stated, ‘Issues.'”

It received worse from there.

“That was my line, after which they minimize that out of the film,” he added. “So, I am not in the film at all. My first position, I am really not in it at all. They fully edited me out.”

Should you look actual shut, although, you can see him for a few second in one shot, however, yeah, looks as if a botched alternative by the director to work with a younger actor, let him construct his confidence, and take a look at once more. (In a manner, it sounds a bit just like the well-known sequence from DiCaprio’s 2019 film As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood.)

He is nonetheless credited as “Man” on IMDb, however what’s most attention-grabbing is that in the event you look, he is only a 12 months away from his breakout position in This Boy’s Life reverse Robert De Niro, and likewise his flip in What’s Consuming Gilbert Grape, which received him an Academy Award nomination. Clearly one thing quickly clicked and the younger actor stopped flubbing his strains.

Poison Ivy is as we speak a little bit of a camp traditional, however it really debuted at the respected Sundance Movie Pageant throughout the peak of the indie movie increase in 1992. It featured some great hairstyles and costuming, folks getting shoved off balconies, and Drew Barrymore (as Ivy!) affecting a “dangerous lady” persona, which is amusing contemplating the loving, open-hearted persona she maintains on her speak present as we speak. As well as to Sara Gilbert, it costarred Cheryl Ladd and Tom Skerritt because the silver fox dad that finally ends up all itchy from Ivy. (Aleve will not make it easier to with that.)

Sequel movies in the sequence grew much more lurid, and starred Alyssa Milano, Jaime Pressly, and Miriam McDonald.

You probably have not seen the trailer for the OG Poison Ivy, seize some calamine lotion and have a look.