Meeting Leonardo for a - wait for it - "Interview Proof Picture"

Yes, really. The good folks at Warner Brothers are no longer content with their stars being photographed for promotion of new movies, now they insist on dictating to the press how their stars are to be photographed. So in this instance, it involved a rather long wait at the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane, coffees and protracted discussions on where/how/how long I would be allowed to attend the interview with the big man. The alternative was to walk away and give my client no pictures at all - a bad negotiating position to start with.

In the end I was allowed to set up lights, chose seating and shooting position, get ready, only to be allowed back into the room for the last minute - yes, that's right folks, the last minute - to shoot my interview proof picture. Warner Bros PR folks didn't want me to shoot any pictures of great Leonardo alone, it absolutely had to be with the gentleman interviewing him, or nothing. So the inevitable outcome of being in the room with Leo for less than 60 seconds is this, and yes, only this. Sad, but true...