This is a transcript of a small article that aired on Entertainment Tonight on January 4, 2000

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Bob Gowen:  Leonardo DiCaprio has landed on the beach and we have you're exclusive look at how he is following up Titanic...

Leonardo:  "A group of people try[ing] to cocoon themsleves in an unnatural environment and try to make their own little world

 with their own laws and their own rules."

Bob:  Leonardo's [character] is looking for paradise and is eager to go...

Leonardo:  "He's like a backpacker traveling on his own in Thailand...he wants to get some tangible experience in his life."

Bob:  Leonardo doesn't go about his adventure alone...Starting on February 11th, American audiences will get their first

look at Virginie Ledoyen who portrays DiCaprio's love interest...

Virginie:  "I'm playing Françoise, she's a French girl traveling with her boyfriend Ètienne.  I think she's at the moment of

her life when she is looking for something different..."

Leonardo:  "Essentially Adam and Eve, trying to seperate themselves from society..."

Bob:  Based on a best selling novel, the movie was shot in what may be on of the most dazzling locations ever captured on 

film, Maya Bay, in Thailand, surrounded by 600 ft. cliffs...

Leonardo:  "Maya Bay is paradise in every sense of the word, I mean, it's beauty is unimaginable..."

Bob:  The residents on the beach prove murderous and Leonardo has to fight for his life...

Leonardo:  "If you're in a situation like this, what kind of sacrifices would you make to keep your paradise a secret?"