South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “Thailand reopens The Beach film location 4 years after it was closed due to tourism damage” – below is their description.
Tourists can once again “believe in paradise” after Thai authorities reopened Maya Bay, the location used for the 2000 film The Beach. Interest in the site had spiked following the release of the movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and in June 2018 authorities shut Maya Bay down to allow it time to recover from environmental damage blamed on excessive tourism. On New Year’s Day, January 1, 2022, Thailand resumed allowing travellers to visit, but with limits on numbers and duration of stay.
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In This Story: Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is an American actor, producer, and environmentalist. He has often played unconventional roles, particularly in biopics and period films. As of 2019, his films have grossed US$7.2 billion worldwide, and he has placed eight times in annual rankings of the highest-paid actors in the world.
In the early 1990s, he played recurring roles in various television series, such as the sitcom Parenthood. He had his first major film role in This Boy’s Life (1993) and received acclaim for his supporting role as a developmentally disabled boy in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). He achieved international stardom in the epic romance Titanic (1997), which became the highest-grossing film to that point. After a few commercially unsuccessful films, DiCaprio starred in two successful features in 2002: the biographical crime drama Catch Me If You Can and the historical drama Gangs of New York.
DiCaprio portrayed Howard Hughes in The Aviator (2004) and continued to receive acclaim for his performances in the political thriller Blood Diamond (2006), the crime drama The Departed (2006), and the romantic drama Revolutionary Road (2008). In the 2010s, he starred in the science fiction thriller Inception (2010), the western Django Unchained (2012), the biopic The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), the survival drama The Revenant (2015), and the comedy-drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), all of which were critical and commercial successes. His accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA, and a Golden Globe Award for The Revenant as well as two other Golden Globes for The Aviator and The Wolf of Wall Street.
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