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Leonardo DiCaprio looks sharp at The Revenant screening after admitting it's the 'most difficult film' he has 'ever made'

Published: 02:36 EST, 25 November 2015 | Updated: 03:24 EST, 25 November 2015

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He's one of the most acclaimed actors of a generation, who has portrayed a wide variety of characters - from Jay Gatsby to Howard Hughes to wayward stockbroker Jordan Belfort.

However, Leonardo DiCaprio says The Revenant is the most difficult film he's ever made.

The 41-year-old actor sported a little facial hair as he arrived for a special screening and Q&A in New York on Tuesday.

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Chat: Leonardo DiCaprio attended a special screening and Q&A of The Revenant in NYC on Tuesday

Keeping a relaxed look with an open tie-free collar, the Catch Me If You Can star - who is already generating plenty of Oscar buzz for the role - looked dashing in a charcoal grey suit.

He joined the director, Birdman's Alejandro González Iñárritu, on the stage in front of an audience, to discuss the film with event host Martin Scorsese.

The filmmaking team braved a brutal British Columbia winter to shoot the film this past year.

Coming soon: The movie is due to be released on December 25 and is already generating Oscar buzz

Set in 1823, The Revenant is based on a 2002 novel by Michael Punke, which follows Hugh Glass - played by DiCaprio - and a team of fur trappers on an expedition cut short by a vicious ambush.

Soon after, Hugh is mauled by a bear and left for dead by his fellow frontiersman. He wills himself to survive and endeavors to enact revenge on those who have wronged him.

Leo told a Beverly Hills audience on Monday: 'This is a very linear, straightforward, brilliantly simplistic screenplay... we wanted to find the poetry in between that.

Stellar: He joined the director, Birdman's director Alejandro González Iñárritu, for the evening hosted by Martin Scorsese (centre)

'It was about us immersing ourselves in nature and putting ourselves as close as we could to the struggle of these people and finding the thru line in that process'.

His performance requires very little dialogue for a 151 minute movie, and thanks to the difficult conditions of shooting in natural light and challenging conditions which were sometimes 30 degrees below freezing, they explained that filming The Revenant was a feat unlike that of any other film.

Months of elaborate rehearsals and preparation went ahead of only to having minutes to shoot on the day.

Handsome: Co-star Will Poulter and Leo looked a picture of sartorial elegance

'It's all a beautiful blur to me', explained DiCaprio said, likening executing Oscar-winning Iñárritu's famous long shots to performing theater every day.

'You have to rehearse meticulously and then it's a mad, intense scramble to capture this magic light, this precious hour and a half...It became very much like an un-humorous Saturday Night Live situation.

'This is the most difficult film, I think, that any of us have ever done,' he concluded.

Challenges: Will, Leo, Martin and Alejandro talked about working in minus 30 temperatures

Oscar hopeful: Keeping a relaxed look with an open tie-free collar, the Catch Me If You Can star looked dashing in a charcoal grey suit

The final touches on the true story were made last week for its Oscars-qualifying limited release on Dec. 25 followed by a nationwide expansion in January.

Despite five Academy Award nominations during his esteemed career, Leonardo is yet to add one of the prized statuettes to his shelf.

He's been nominated for best actor three times - for The Aviator, Blood Diamond and Wolf Of Wall Street but was beaten to the gong by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, Forest Whitaker and Matthew McConaughy respectively.

Tom Hardy and Will Poulter also star in the thriller, based on Michael Punke's 2002 novel.

Panel: The Revenant is based on a 2002 novel by Michael Punke, which follows Hugh Glass - played by DiCaprio - and a team of fur trappers on an expedition cut short by a vicious ambush