Director Danny Boyle admits that he fought with Fox execs over the Leonardo DiCaprio character in The Beach.?he told Entertainment Weekly that; "Fox would have liked us to continue the romantic adventure [at the beginning of the film].?They wanted Leonardo to stay with the girl and have it be a romance." According to Boyle, the studio wanted Leonardo's character to remain in the pretty/good boy category that all the 12 year old girls have grown to love.?Boyle said: "This was fascinating to me, but the worst thing they found was that he lies a few times in the film.?And that he lies not for the greater good, but to save his own skin.?They found that really, really difficult.?I said, 'Look, people lie, the president even lies,' and they said to us, 'But this is a movie.'"
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