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The true story behind DiCaprio’s darkest challenge yet
Leonardo DiCaprio is set to play infamous Jonestown cult leader Jim Jones — an expert reveals what to expect
Welcome to the dark side — Leonardo DiCaprio will star as murderous cult leader Jim Jones in the upcoming biopic.
WHAT WAS JONESTOWN?
IN ONCE UPON A Time In Hollywood he faced down a terrifying real-life cult; now Leonardo DiCaprio will be starring as the leader of one. Jim Jones — soon to be played by DiCaprio in a new film he is also producing — was a pastor who started the Peoples Temple in Indianapolis in the 1950s. “He began with this message of social justice and racial equality,” explains Julia Scheeres, Jonestown expert and author of A Thousand Lives, a history of the Jonestown settlement and massacre.