Macaulay Culkin missed out on a role in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood after messing up his audition.
05.02.2020 - 17:51 / wmagazine.com
"Actually, a funny thing happened," Margaret Qualley tells Lynn Hirschberg during her Screen Tests interview, while speaking about auditioning for her role as Pussycat in Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood.
The 25-year-old actress had just been turned down for another part in the film. Her father, Paul Qualley, who lives in Panama, suggested she come visit him.
"He said that I should book a plane ticket, and then I'll get a Quentin Tarantino movie," she remembers. "He was saying it with the
Macaulay Culkin missed out on a role in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood after messing up his audition.
The film won twice at last weekend's Oscars
Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood took home two awards at the 2020 Oscars on Sunday, after having been nominated for ten.The film, which follows actor Rick Dalton (DiCaprio) and his stuntman Cliff Booth (Pitt) struggling to find meaningful work in a fast-changing 1969 Hollywood, snagged honors for best supporting actor and production design."This is incredible, really incredible," Brad Pitt said at the start of hissupporting actor acceptance speech.Before he continued with his
Brad Pitt continued his awards season (and acceptance speech) domination on Sunday night, winning the supporting actor Oscar for his portrayal of stuntman Cliff Booth in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
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Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood was among the top winners at the 10th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on Thursday night (Feb. 6).
Zoe Bell is a Hollywood veteran when it comes to stunt work. She’s worked with director Quentin Tarantino on a number of his films, and he made her his stunt coordinator for his ninth picture, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.
Beware of spoilers
When this year's Oscar contenders were announced, Mark Ulano scored a rare double nomination in sound mixing for Fox/Disney's Ad Astra and Sony's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (which also garnered a sound editing nom). "I had no expectation because there are some very good films out there this year," admits the veteran sound mixer, who won an Oscar for James Cameron's historical drama Titanic and nabbed an additional nomination for Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is Quentin Tarantino's love letter to the film industry, and indeed, on the first round of viewing, one might not pick up on the fastidious attention to detail the Oscar nominee for best director and screenplay paid to recreating 1969, 50 years later.When attending a screening of the best picture nominee at Tarantino's New Beverly Cinema on Beverly Blvd., immersing oneself in that period is the goal, as broadcasts from the local 1969 Los Angeles KHJ radio station
By Erik Pedersen
Quentin Tarantino’s earliest memory of Los Angeles was as a young boy visiting Grauman’s Chinese Theater, standing in the courtyard and looking at the handprints of John Wayne and Roy Rogers. He recollects the Mold-A-Rama machine outside that dispensed a souvenir wax pagoda if you inserted a quarter.
Filmdom’s battle between the haves and have-nots moved off-screen when Oscar nominations were announced earlier this month: Four films scored 10 or more nominations, with Todd Phillips’ “Joker,” leading the pack with 11, and Sam Mendes’ World War I nail-biter “1917,” Martin Scorsese’s epic gangster tale “The Irishman” and Quentin Tarantino’s retro “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” trailing a tick behind at 10 each. It’s rare for three films to land 10 or more nominations, let alone four.