Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg are two actors whose careers seem totally opposite from one another, even if they briefly competed for the role of Dirk Diggler in Paul Thomas Anderson ’s Boogie Nights . While Wahlberg was already an established musician by the time that he began appearing in films, DiCaprio came from a family of actors and had slowly evolved in his craft after first breaking through as a child star. The vast difference in their acting styles is one of the reasons why it was so electrifying to see them go head-to-head in The Departed , the Best Picture-winning crime masterpiece from Martin Scorsese . However, DiCaprio and Wahlberg first shared the screen with one another in the underrated addiction drama The Basketball Diaries .

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