**This review contains spoilers.** Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Oscar-nominated film “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,” directed by Lasse Hallström, who is famous for directing many of ABBA’s ...

Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp and Juliette Lewis in “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.” Feldman claimed of Depp, “He said that I was a junkie and that he didn’t work with junkies.

Johnny Depp portrayed Gilbert in the 1993 film. ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection He explained, “Had I not been pushed out and done that role, who knows what would have happened from that ...