 By the early 1990s, he began acting regularly on television, starting with a role in the pilot of "The Outsiders" (1990) and one episode of the soap opera "Santa Barbara" (1990), in which he played the young Mason Capwell.DiCaprio got a break that year when he was cast in "Parenthood", a series based on a successful comedy film of same name.Before being cast in the role of Garry Buckman, a troubled teenager, he analyzed Joaquin Phoenix's performance in the original film.