🎬 Fact: The Aviator (2004) This scene depicts the debilitating reality of Howard Hughes’ Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, a condition Leonardo DiCaprio deeply researched by spending time with real patients to master their specific physical tics and mental struggles. During the filming of this sequence, DiCaprio became so immersed in the repetitive behaviors such as the vigorous hand-washing until his skin was raw that he later admitted his own mild childhood OCD tendencies began to resurface. He