Leonardo DiCaprio welcomes 'incredible reaction' to One Battle After Another

Leonardo DiCaprio has been overwhelmed by the response to One Battle After Another.

The 51-year-old actor stars alongside the likes of Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti in the action thriller film, and DiCaprio has been wowed by the public's reaction to the project.

Speaking at an in-conversation event at BFI Southbank in London, DiCaprio explained: "The reaction has been incredible from people. Not just from my friends and family, but people coming up to me and interacting with me about what the film meant to them. I don’t know. It’s been a really special moment making this film and seeing people’s feelings about what it meant to them."

Sean Penn plays the part of Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw, a military officer, in the Paul Thomas Anderson-directed movie, and DiCaprio confessed to being really impressed by his co-star.

The Hollywood actor explained: "He really brought elements to it that a lot of other actors … wouldn’t have made that choice.

"We talked a lot about who Lockjaw was going to be. And then when Paul decided on Sean, what was so amazing to see it up on film — because I hadn’t seen a lot of it, I was off doing my own stuff — was the fragility that he brought to what would otherwise be an obvious choice [from] maybe some other actors to make him purely menacing."

Earlier this month, Jennifer Lawrence hailed One Battle After Another as "the best movie [she's] ever seen".

The Oscar-winning actress recently watched the action thriller movie and Jennifer confessed to being wowed by the film.

Speaking to the BAFTA Playback, the 35-year-old actress said: "This is the best movie I’ve ever seen. This is One Battle After Another."

The Hollywood star confessed that she couldn't "remember a time where [she] ever had an experience like that in the cinema, and it was shared".

Jennifer - who is married to art gallery director Cooke Maroney - added: "When it was over, everyone applauded. I just kept thanking my husband over and over and over again because he had booked the tickets, like two weeks in advance, and I just couldn’t say anything else other than just like, thank you for that experience."

Jennifer also urged film fans to watch the movie in a cinema, rather than on a TV.

She said: "You have to see it in theatres. I think it’s an impossible pace to uphold. There’s not an extra minute in it, at no point does it drag."