New Brunswick — After Leonardo DiCaprio’s first and long-awaited win at the Oscars last night, many New Brunswickers are upset, saying the 41-year-old hardly deserves a major award for acting out what is just a typical day for many in the Picture Province.
“Who hasn’t been mauled by a bear?” asked Norton man David Francis, who saw The Revenant but was largely unimpressed. “Or for that matter, who hasn’t had to carve out their dead horse’s guts to fabricate an overnight shelter from bitter winter winds? They gave him an Oscar for that? Weak.”
Minto woman Jessica Vaughn said that, as much as she likes Leo, she doesn’t believe his performance was at all Oscar-worthy. “I have to swim through an icy river fully clothed 5 days a week just to get to work,” she said. “If they make a movie about waiting in the Tims drive-thru every frigid morning, it’ll be a different story. That’s true hardship.”
“Jesus Christ, that’s me coming home from the bar every Thursday, Friday, Saturday night!” exclaimed Fredericton student Kelsey Albright. “All he needed was some lip balm and he would have been fine. What a baby.”
“If you ask me, they could have saved a lot of money by hiring a New Brunswicker to play the main role,” said Saint John resident Gary Devine. “We need the work, and Leo looked like shit anyway. No one would have noticed the difference.”
Alma man Bert Higgins echoed these sentiments. “So he gave up shaving and gained some weight. Nothing I don’t do every winter.”
“If this is supposed to be a period piece or whatever they call it, then they must be talking about yesterday or even an hour ago,” offered Campbellton native Jerome Fanjoy. “I deal with worse weather just getting out the door every day.
“Bunch of Hollywood know-nothings crawling around in the snow like it’s a big frigging deal.”
i’m from new brunswick. i’m ashamed people would say these things. obviously you have no idea what it takes to be an actor.Leo did his job. He didn’t ask for an award. he was given one. after all these years I think he deserved it.
This never gets old. Folks think this is real
Oh yea. I am from Norton and that Leo is a real pussy. I looked worse than him after 3 weeks with the flu. I never said a word, never complained.One time when I was a kid I almost died,wouldn’t ell the old man I was hungry.
Leo would never make it in NB. When w were his age we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o’clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife. But you try and tell the young people today that… and they won’t believe ya