How Rick Dalton’s Trailer Scene Came About In Once Upon A Time in Hollywood

Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, followed in part an aging Hollywood actor at the end of his fame. Not sure about you folks, but almost immediately I lost Leonardo Dicaprio and could only see Rick Dalton. One of the film’s more talked about scenes was where Dicaprio’s Dalton character is applying some self-discipline in his trailer after messing up a scene just a few minutes before.

As it turns out, this scene was suggested by DiCaprio, and Tarantino was initially not a fan of the idea, but eventually came around to it. You can check out what Tarantino had to say about the scene during a Q&A session that followed a screening of the film below

“Well, it wasn’t in the script, actually, so we never rehearsed it or anything. It wasn’t in the script. It was something that just somewhere along the way of shooting I think I came up with the idea. Here is the thing, though. That whole section kind of evolved as we were shooting the movie, because there was a whole thing. Leo had a whole thing. At some point it was like, ‘Look, I need to f**k up during the Lancer sequence, alright? And when I f**k up during the Lancer sequence, I need to have a real crisis of [confidence] about it, and I have to come back from that to some length.'”

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Tarantino continued, discussing the moment that he knew the scene had to go in the film.

“My immediate response is, ‘What, you’re going to f**k up my western sequence? That’s my western, alright? I get two for one with this movie! I’m trying to sneak a western in here when nobody’s fucking looking. Don’t f**k it up!’ And so almost like we did with him f*****g up his hand in Django where it was like, ‘Well, I don’t know if I want to do that.’ So we did the Lancer scene without the fuck up, and then we did it with the fuck up. And then once we did it with the f**k up it was just so amazing, alright, that of course we’re going to use it.”

The scene was great and made me lose Dicaprio into Dalton even further, he was no longer the Oscar-winning actor, he was an aging actor of the late 60s, trying to get himself together. Of course, it was acted brilliantly and added that little umph to both the film and the character of Rick Dalton.

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