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Leonardo DiCaprio has revealed his latest movie Shutter Island is “the most intense” role that he has played so far.

The hunky actor admitted filming the suspense thriller also “challenged the hell out of me”.

In the movie DiCaprio plays a federal marshal searching for an escaped patient from a hospital for the criminally insane.

It was filmed at a derelict mental ward in Massachusetts and DiCaprio and his co-star Mark Ruffalo had to act as they had wind and rain machines trained on them – and even live rats thrown at them.

DiCaprio told Entertainment Tonight: “We had giant wind machines, we had elements being thrown at Mark Ruffalo and myself while we had to simultaneously talk about the case that was going on and spout out three pages of dialogue.

“It was very very difficult at times but just like the character we had to persevere in finding out what was really going on in Shutter Island.

“It made us more committed and more focused and we had to talk through the wind machines, the rain machines, the rats being thrown at us.

“We shot in an abandoned mental ward in Massachusetts and it had sort of eroded and degraded.

“It certainly gave a texture to the movie that wouldn’t have been available had we just created it.

“It was everywhere. It was prevalent throughout the course of making this movie and it becomes its own character.

“This island and this mental ward becomes its own sort of entity in this movie.”

Shutter Island is the fourth movie he has shot with director Martin Scorsese and DiCaprio revealed the pair have a unique bond.

He added: “It’s truly just a trust thing at this point. I’ve been very fortunate to work with a master filmmaker on four movies in a row.”