Leonardo DiCaprio and Camila Morrone carried the Italian in the North End

Leonardo DiCaprio has always kept a low profile since arriving in Boston to film Adam McKay’s Netflix comedy “Don’t Look Up”. But DiCaprio and his girlfriend Camila Morrone briefly came under public eye on New Year’s Eve, when they visited the North End to learn the ingredients for a healthy Italian feast.

DiCaprio, Morrone and another woman visited Table Mercato on Thursday afternoon, carrying pasta, sauces, homemade chips, fig jam and other items from owner Jen Royle’s Italian store. Royle, who runs Table Mercato and the adjacent Italian restaurant Table, said DiCaprio was one of the first customers to order a basket to carry all of her items, which she supposed was for a meal at home.

“They are going to stay home, no one is going to have dinner on New Year’s Eve,” Royle told Boston.com on Saturday afternoon. “They probably just wanted to load things up, close the curtains and cook.”

Royle said she was busy working in the store’s basement when DiCaprio and Morrone entered, but said the store’s employees and customers recognized the actor.

“The people at the store said he had the bluest eyes they had ever seen,” said Royle. “You couldn’t mistake him for anyone else, even with the mask.”

Thanks @LeoDiCaprio for coming to mine @MercatoTABLE last night. I have no idea what you bought, but I hope it was good! 😬

– Jen Royle (@Jen_Royle) January 1, 2021

Since the production of “Don’t Look Up” began in late November, DiCaprio and other cast members filmed throughout Massachusetts, especially on December 1 at South Station, when he and co-star Jennifer Lawrence shot scenes in an Acela Train.

“Don’t Look Up” was also filmed at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Wheaton College in Norton, in Salisbury Beach, the DCU Center in Worcester, Battleship Cove in Fall River and Union Point in Weymouth. Filming is expected to continue at least until mid-February.

In the film, Lawrence and DiCaprio play a pair of astronomers who discover that an asteroid is on a collision course to Earth. When they start talking publicly about the imminent danger, they discover that no one will take their dire warnings about the imminent danger seriously.

Along with the duo, “Don’t Look Up” stars Cate Blanchett (“Carol”), Rob Morgan (“Mudbound”), Meryl Streep (“The Iron Lady”), Jonah Hill (“The Wolf of Wall Street “), Himesh Patel (” Yesterday “), Timothée Chalamet (” Little Women “), Matthew Perry (” Friends “) Tomer Sisley (” We are the Millers “), singer Ariana Grande and rapper Kid Cudi.