West Wing: The Revenant: the bear facts

01 March 2016 - 02:26

By Horatia Harrod, © The Daily Telegraph

Leonardo DiCaprio went through hell to play indestructible fur trapper Hugh Glass in The Revenant. But how tall is the tale that inspired it? Michael Punke, US ambassador to the World Trade Organisation, wrote the book on which the film is based, and the man DiCaprio was imitating is based on a true story.

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