The 1995 cult movie that Leonardo DiCaprio rejected: “Brendan Fraser was a last-minute swap for him”You could argue that Brendan Fraser’s cracking career resurgence has been one of Hollywood’s most heartening stories in recent years. Fraser and Leonardo DiCaprio, funnily enough, arrived in Hollywood at more or less the same time. In 1995, Fraser starred in the coming-of-age drama Now and Then, though he only ended up with the role because Leonardo DiCaprio had binned it off. According to Fraser, DiCaprio later told him he was one of the first people in Hollywood who treated him like an actor rather than a child. He told SiriusXM: “[DiCaprio] told me I was the first person that didn’t treat him like a little kid because when I met him, I didn’t see a little kid.