Edward Norton Gives Fallon Play-by-Play of the Time He Saved Leonardo DiCaprio's Life

Edward Norton details his underwater Leonardo DiCaprio rescue on 'The Tonight Show.'

December 8, 2016

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Here's a list of Leonardo DiCaprio's most enviable accomplishments:

Won a goddamn Oscar
Made an amazing climate change doc
Routinely rocks next-level footwear
Got his life saved by Edward Norton

Norton, a longtime friend of DiCaprio, opened up about that last one on Wednesday's Tonight Show. Speaking with fascism-cuddler Jimmy Fallon about DiCaprio's addiction to various electronic devices, Norton detailed the dramatic turn of events first hinted at in a Rolling Stone profile earlier this year.

"He's like the human equivalent of call waiting," Norton explained. "If you're talking to him, he's totally taken… then he's checking [his phone] because this club might be blowing, or that club. He's trying to figure out which club is blowing up and which Israeli supermodel turned 18 four hours ago."

But anyway, back to this great Galapagos Island diving rescue: "I'm looking around and I realize, he's just not there," Norton recalled of the moment he realized DiCaprio was potentially in danger. "He's not around. I think to myself, like, I know Leo. I know how he is with his devices. He's probably got his face in that camera and he's going way off and he's following these things. We're almost at the end of this dive, and I'm just thinking maybe I should go check on him."

Thankfully, Norton's instincts were correct. DiCaprio had damn near experienced an oxygen crisis. "It didn't seem dramatic to me," Norton claimed. "I think it did to him."