The moment Leonardo DiCaprio snubbed Boris Johnson

***EXCLUSIVE from The Telegraph:***

A starstruck Boris Johnson adopted a “South African” accent when he bumped into Leonardo DiCaprio and started quoting lines from his films back to him.

The former prime minister said he encountered the Hollywood actor and staunch environmentalist [in November 2021 at the Cop26 climate change summit](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/09/19/boris-johnson-challenging-world-leaders-ambitious-climate-change/) in Glasgow.

However, after realising that DiCaprio was in a hurry, Mr Johnson burst out with quotes from the star’s film Blood Diamond, a dialogue his family knew “by heart”.

DiCaprio plays the “brusque, cynical” Danny Archer, a “hard-bitten white Rhodesian gunrunner and gem smuggler” in the 2006 hit, set during the Sierra Leone civil war.

“As he quickened his pace, I found myself speaking in a thick South African accent and quoting some of his greatest lines,” Mr Johnson [writes in his book, Unleashed](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/03/boris-johnson-bug-found-bathroom-netanyahu-visit/).

***Read more:*** [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/03/leonardo-dicaprio-snubbed-boris-johnson-cop26/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/03/leonardo-dicaprio-snubbed-boris-johnson-cop26/)

it’s a shame he couldn’t snub this genocidal fascist: https://images1.ynet.co.il/PicServer3/2014/03/06/5198451/519844901001078640360no.jpg