The deleted scene from “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” that made Quentin Tarantino and Leonardo DiCaprio cry
The filmmaker and actor's favorite moment was left out of the film due to time constraints.
Although two years have passed since its premiere, there are still unknown details of "Once upon a time in Hollywood", which have been coming to light little by little. Now it is known that Quentin Tarantino and Leonardo DiCaprio cried during filming for a scene that was finally left out of the final edition due to time problems.
In an interview with the RealBlend podcast, Tarantino revealed that the scene was a midnight phone conversation between Rick Dalton, the second-string actor played by DiCaprio, and Trudi Fraser, the charming child actress played by Julia Butters, picks up IndieWire.
“That was my favorite scene in the script. So the idea that he wasn't in the movie was inconceivable," Tarantino said. "I think it was Leo's favorite scene out of all the ones we shot," he continued. And he added: “We were in tears”, insisting that no scene in his filmography has affected him so much emotionally. “Julia [Butters] would cry every time we finished a take,” he confessed.
The director said that unfortunately the scene had to be left out in pursuit of the coherence of the film as a whole: "In the montage a chronology is imposed, and if the chronology does not fit, the scene has to go," he explained.
According to the filmmaker, the conversation between Rick and Trudi "feels like an ending to the movie." "That was fine in the script, because there I saw everything that happens in February as part of a three-act structure, and then everything that happens on the night of the murders as an epilogue," he detailed.
"But that perspective was not the right one," he said. “Once we started putting the movie together, the stuff that happens in August wasn't an epilogue. They were the third act. We had to see it that way,” he continued.
So the reason we didn't get access to this moment was so Tarantino could give us a few more minutes of DiCaprio and Brad Pitt massacring members of the Manson Family. However, the filmmaker included the scene as one of the highlights of his novel based on the film.
A novel that also includes mentions of Trudi's later career, including her three Oscar nominations and the film she shot under the orders of a certain Quentin Tarantino.
