Pete Davidson had Jimmy Fallon in sтιтches when he shared a story about a surprising encounter he had with Leonardo DiCaprio on Thursday’s episode of The Tonight Show.

The 31-year-old former Saturday Night Live star revealed that he had a run-in with the 50-year-old Oscar winner in 2015, when he was a regular cast member on the sketch comedy series’ 40th anniversary special.

Pete — who revealed this month that he once wanted to be fired from SNL —said the anniversary episode wasn’t actually that bad for him, because it was only his first year on the show, so he wasn’t a known quanтιтy yet.

Otherwise, the special is the ‘most anxiety-provoking’ version of the show, because it doesn’t have a ‘normal audience.’

Instead, Pete clarified, the live audience is made up of stars like Jack Nicholson and Taylor Swift. 

‘So you’re, like, dressed like a potato in front of’ all the superstars, Pete joked as he wiggled his fingers around and danced in his seat. 

Pete Davidson had Jimmy Fallon in sтιтches when he shared a story about a surprising encounter he had with Leonardo DiCaprio on Thursday’s episode of The Tonight Show

The 31-year-old former Saturday Night Live star revealed that he had a run-in with the 50-year-old Oscar winner in 2015, when he was a regular cast member on the sketch comedy series’ 40th anniversary special; pictured in January 2024 in Beverly Hills

‘And then Jack Nicholson’s just sitting there,’ he added, miming the Oscar winner by squinting his eyes and rocking back and forth while grinning.

Fallon, who was well acquainted with the pressures of the anniversary show, asked if Nicholson was the one who had ‘freaked’ him out, but Pete clarified that it was another A-lister.

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He recalled how he was about to ‘introduce a category’ with his former costar Leslie Jones, but just as the on-set announcer said he had five seconds before the show went live again, he felt a surprise tug on his shirt — from none other than Leonardo DiCaprio.

Pete remember that Leo had ‘his big Revenant beard’ at the time of the show.

‘He just went, “I like what you’re doing,”‘ the comedian recalled, squinting his eyes and nodding as he impersonated the Killers Of The Flower Moon star.

Just at that moment, the woman keeping tabs shouted ‘Live!’, which threw Pete off his game. 

Pete’s hilarious story comes after news that one of DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese’s longest-gestating projects just got a major new boost.

Their film adaptation of Erik Larson’s 2004 nonfiction book The Devil In The White City now has the back of 20th Century Studios, sources told ᴅᴇᴀᴅline last week.

the special is the ‘most anxiety-provoking’ version of the show, because it doesn’t have a ‘normal audience.’ Instead, Pete clarified, the live audience is made up of stars like Jack Nicholson and Taylor Swift

‘So you’re, like, dressed like a potato in front of’ all the superstars, Pete joked as he wiggled his fingers around and danced in his seat

‘And then Jack Nicholson’s just sitting there,’ he added, miming the Oscar winner by squinting his eyes and rocking back and forth while grinning

He recalled how he was about to ‘introduce a category’ with his former costar Leslie Jones, but just as the on-set announcer said he had five seconds before the show went live again, he felt a surprise tug on his shirt — from none other than Leonardo DiCaprio

Pete remember that Leo had ‘his big Revenant beard’ at the time of the show. ‘He just went, “I like what you’re doing,”‘ the comedian recalled, squinting his eyes and nodding as he impersonated the Killers Of The Flower Moon star

Just at that moment, the woman keeping tabs shouted ‘Live!’, which threw Pete off his game; DiCaprio is pictured in May 2023 in Cannes, France

Pete’s hilarious story comes after news that DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating projects Devil In The White City got a boost after 20th Century Studios moved forward with a film intended for theatrical exhibition; seen in 2023 in Las Vegas

According to the publication, DiCaprio is again in talks to star in the nonfiction serial killer thriller, while Scorsese is negotiating to direct the project.

The movie follows their last collaboration, the acclaimed Western crime epic Killers Of The Flower Moon.

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Although the news is promising for fans of DiCaprio and Scorsese’s many collaborations, they shouldn’t get their hopes up too much, as the project has been in various stages of discussions since the Wolf Of Wall Street star bought the rights to the nonfiction history back in 2010. 

The film had previously been planned as a feature film at Paramount, with DiCaprio starring and Scorsese directing, but that version of the project fell through. 

It was reconsтιтuted as a limited series for Hulu in 2022, with Keanu Reeves set to star and Tár director Todd Field to helm the project, but that fell through just two months after it was announced when both exited the project.

Now, DiCaprio may get a chance to bring the chilling history to life with his good friend and regular collaborator Scorsese, with whom he has been working since 2002’s Gangs Of New York.

According to ᴅᴇᴀᴅline, the two would produce their upcoming film, along with Stacey Sher, Rick Yorn and Jennifer Davisson, who is DiCaprio’s partner at his production company Appian Way.

Sources said that a recent meeting with executives at 20th Century — formerly 20th Century Fox before Disney bought it — went well enough that they wanted to move forward with a theatrical adaptation of Larson’s book.

The movie, which would star DiCaprio and be directed by Scorsese, is adapted from Erik Larson’s bestselling nonfiction crime tale The Devil In The White City, about the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago and the serial killer H. H. Holmes

DiCaprio bought the rights back in 2010, and he and Scorsese were attached for Paramount before the project fell apart. Keanu Reeves later signed on to a Hulu limited series version directed by Todd Field, but that also fell apart in 2022; seen in 2019 in Santa Barbara, Calif.

DiCaprio most recently worked with Scorsese on the Oscar-nominated crime epic Killers Of The Flower Moon (pictured). Their collaborations have earned $1.3 billion over the years

Despite having been tossed around for more than a decade, there isn’t currently a screenplay for Devil In The White City.

Larson’s book, which is subтιтled Murder, Magic And Madness At The Fair That Changed America, tells a dual story set around the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.

The book, which is structured more like a novel than a traditional history, juxtaposes the feats of the World’s Fair architect Daniel Burnham with the grisly crimes of the early American serial killer H. H. Holmes.

Holmes, who ran a H๏τel in Chicago at the time, was only ever tried and convicted of murdering one person, but he was believed to have killed several other people, and he confessed to having murdered 27, though several of his alleged victims later turned out to still be alive.

The sensationalist newspapers of the era dubbed the H๏τel he ran a ‘murder castle,’ and it was claimed that it had secret rooms for torturing guests, as well as trapdoors and a gas chamber.

However, most of these claims were later shown to be serious exaggerations or complete fabrications.

This would be the seventh project for DiCaprio and Scorsese if it comes to fruition.

They first worked together on 2002’s Gangs Of New York, and quickly followed that up with the Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator and the Oscar-winning The Departed, which earned Scorsese his first — and so far only — Academy Award for best director. 

They reunited in 2010 for the thriller Shutter Island, before making their most commercially successful film to date in 2013 with The Wolf Of Wall Street. 

DiCaprio worked with Scorsese’s other great acting inspiration, Robert DeNiro, on the short film The Audition in 2015, but their last major theatrical release was 2023’s Killers Of The Flower Moon, which was released by Paramount and Apple TV+.

All of their films have been hits with critics, with several already attraction modern masterpiece status, and they have proved to have one of the most profitable creative partnerships in film after earning $1.3 billion together.