Leonardo DiCaprio's Russian doppelganger gets his own TV show
Technician turned Oscar-winner look alike
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Your support makes all the difference.In January, a photo of a Russian man who looked like an overweight version of Oscar hopeful Leonardo DiCaprio went viral, inspiring hundreds of memes and making a lot of people ‘lol’.
Since that moment, Roman Burtsev’s life has changed forever. The technician soon began to make headlines for acting out scenes from Titanic with random people and spoofing The Revenant, DiCaprio’s latest film.
Things are about to get even crazier for the doppelganger, as he has been offered his own reality TV show called Romance with DiCaprio by a local Russian station.
According to ABC News, the show has already seen the lookalike visit a dietician, had him go through voice classes and be taken around a ‘smart supermarket’.
He will reportedly go through more “psychological challenges”, with one upcoming challenge seeing Burtsev hit the streets of Moscow to beg for money “to teach him how to attract more wealth into his life”, while in another he will go on a series of ice-skating and Karaoke dates in order to find love.
In other DiCaprio/Russia news, the real actor was offered the role of Lenin by a film studio after saying he’d like to play a number of Russian leaders.
However, a number of communists have since protested the casting choice, saying it should be given to a true Russian, even though DiCaprio claims to be half Russian himself.
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