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Djimon Hounsou has Leonardo DiCaprio to thank for saving his life after Leo stood between his Blood Diamond co-star and a killer intent on shooting the African. Djimon remains puzzled as to why the gunman targeted him while he was filming the new action film in Mozambique, but he’s sure he’d be wounded or dead if it wasn’t for Leo’s heroics. Djimon explains, “He stood in the way of somebody who was trying to shoot me. We went to eat somewhere and apparently somebody was threatening to kill me there. Leo said, ‘Well, you’re gonna have to go through me.’” That was enough to make the gunman think twice and he fled the scene, leading a grateful Djimon to pour praise on his pal. Leo, meanwhile, has refused to even discuss the matter during promotional interviews for the new film. He will only talk about his great friendship with Djimon. Leo says, “We became like brothers on this movie… We were together for six months.”

So the gunman went after the tall, muscular Djimon, but was frightened away by Leo’s baby face? Yeah, that makes sense. Maybe the gunman believed Leo really did die on the Titanic and that he’d seen a ghost.