- It's official, old
buddy, I'm a has-been.
- Director Quentin Tarantino
is shedding some light
on just what happened
to Leonardo DiCaprio's
character, Rick Dalton,
after the ending of "Once
Upon a Time in Hollywood".
- Look, Randy, I'm asking
you to help me out, man.
If the answer's no, the answer's
no, not no with excuses.
- When audiences last saw
Rick, an aging TV star
trying to break into film, he was meeting
his nextdoor neighbor Sharon
Tate, played by Margot Robbie.
After surviving an attack by
followers of Charles Manson,
which altered history, Rick had fantasized
about meeting Tate and her husband,
director Roman Polanski,
in the hopes that it would help him catch
another big break in the industry.
Fans may have been left hopeful
before the credits began to roll
but Tarantino recently told
Margaret Cho on her podcast
that he's not so sure Rick ever got
that A-list star status he yearned for.
The director said, "What could
have easily have happened,
"even if he had a little
bit more success in the 70s
"than maybe I give him credit for,
"what I could really see happened,
"because it happened
to a lot of these guys,
"is that by the late 70s, early 80s,
"a lot of these macho 50s and
60s television leading men,
"they showed up on TV shows again
"but as the older cop who's
the boss of the younger cop
"that sends them out on the missions."
But Tarantino did say
that he felt Rick would
have been changed enough
by that point that he would
have considered film roles
which he likely would have
turned down years prior.
- That's your son?
- No, that's my stunt double, Cliff Booth.
- "Once Upon a Time in
Hollywood" is available
on digital on November 26th, and four K,
Blu Ray and DVD on December 10th.
For more on this story, head to thr.com.
Until next time, for The
Hollywood Reporter News,
I'm Tiffany Taylor.
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