Leonardo DiCaprio speaks about ‘sweaty intimacy’ of SHOCKING ‘grizzly bear rape’ film

LEONARDO DICAPRIO has stirred up the controversy surrounding his terrifying new film The Revenant where he is brutally attacked by an enraged grizzly bear, with early reports saying he was raped.

Early audiences were left shocked and disturbed by the graphic scenes in his new film where a grizzly bear attacks the actor's character, Hugh Glass. 

The studio was forced to issue an urgent statement when a shocking story broke on the internet.

“The bear flips Leo over and thrusts and thrusts during the explicit mauling,” said one report. “He is raped – twice.”

"The bear flips Glass over on his belly and molests him– dry humps him actually," wrote another after seeing the film.

The internet exploded, with one site even going so far as to declare "DICAPRIO RAPED BY BEAR IN MOVIE."

And now DiCaprio himself has made comments which will only fuel the flames of controversy.

SCROLL DOWN TO WATCH THE SHOCKING TRAILER WITH THE ATTACK 

DiCaprio made the incendiary comments while praising the achivements of the film's director, Alejandro González Iñárritu.

"What he achieves cinematicallyis something that I think is very ground-breaking, and that is the ability for an audience to be in a sort of very raw, violent, savage bear attack, yet feel the intimacy of both man and beast.

"You feel the sweat, and the heat coming off the animal.

"It's almost like he awakens other senses within you as an audience member, and you feel like you're some voyeuristic animal watching something that you shouldn't be watching."

The Revenant is based on Michael Punke's 2002 novel of the same name and inspired by the life of frontiersman Hugh Glass (c. 1780–1833).

Our clip from the trailer shows the terrible moment the grizzly bear throws Glass down and climbs on top of him.

Ravaging, rampaging grizzlybears are not all that Glass has to deal with, though.

Tom Hardy turns in another terrifying performance as the nasty John Fitzgerald. His despicable acts set Glass on a course of vengeance that fuel this blood-soaked film.

UPDATE: SCROLL DOWN FOR THE OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM THE FILM STUDIO ABOUT THE CONTROVERSIAL SCENE 

The horrific attack is described in vivid detail in the original book.

"The grizzly dropped to all fours and was on him. Glass rolled into a ball, desperate to protect his face and chest. She bit into the back of his neck and lifted him off the ground, shaking him so hard that Glass wondered if his spine might snap.

He felt the crunch of her teeth striking the bone of his shoulder blade. Claws raked repeatedly through the flesh of his back and scalp. He screamed in agony.

She dropped him, then sank her teeth deep into his thigh and shook him again, lifting him and throwing him to the ground with such force that he lay stunned— conscious, but unable to resist any further.

He lay on his back staring up…"