Aniston and diCaprio set for real life roles

Jennifer Aniston and Leonardo diCaprio are both looking to play roles based on real life characters in their upcoming film projects.

Aniston wants to play war photographer Dickey Chapelle, a blonde, blue-eyed beauty who covered World War Two for Look magazine and Reader’s Digest and won widespread respect for her work on the front lines.

Chapelle died during the Vietnam War after tripping on a landmine while on an undercover mission with the Marines.

DiCaprio will star in The Man Who Loved Grizzlies as controversial environmentalist Tim Treadwell, who was mauled to death with his partner Annie Huguenard last October by the very bears he had devoted his life to protecting.

Treadwell, who spent months at a time in the wilds of Alaska, was criticised for insisting on treating the grizzlies as our natural friends rather than potential predators.