Leonardo DiCaprio is looking back on the time he brought his parents to work and Brad Pitt mistook them for extras.
In a recent interview, DiCaprio recalled inviting his father and stepmother to the set of Quentin Tarantino’s period drama Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, where they blended right in with the onscreen talent — to the point where Pitt refused to believe they were his costar’s folks and not paid actors.
“I remember that moment, we were turning a corner out of Musso & Frank’s onto Hollywood Boulevard and I said to Brad, ‘That’s my dad and that’s my stepmom there,'” DiCaprio told Time magazine. “And he goes, ‘Ha, ha. Yeah, right.'”
The Oscar-winning actor said he tried to convince his costar that it really was his parents they were driving past, but Pitt wouldn’t budge.
“I’m like, ‘I know they look like they’re extras in this movie, but that’s really them,'” DiCaprio said as he began to laugh. “That’s how they dress every day!'”
He added, “It was an amazing moment. I’ll never forget that moment.”
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Clooney on Rebooting ‘Oceans’
But there’s one franchise Clooney plans to revive — “Ocean’s Eleven.” Although instead of a nostalgia play, he wants to explore what it’s like to pull off a heist when you’re no longer young and spry. He was inspired by the movie “Going in Style,” a ’70s comedy about a group of aging criminals, and he’s enlisted Roberts, Damon, Pitt and Don Cheadle to return as an older, but wiser gang. They are scouting locations and hope to start shooting next October.
“There was something about the idea that we’re too old to do what we used to do, but we’re still smart enough to know how to get away with something, that just appeals to me,” Clooney says. “They’ve lost a step, and they need to find a way to work around their limitations.”
Andrew Dominik on ‘Blonde’: “I Don’t Understand” the Backlash and How Brad Pitt Saved Him From “Director’s Jail”
The Marrakech conversation naturally turned to Dominik’s ongoing collaboration with Pitt, who has starred in “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” and “Killing Them Softly,” and also produced “Blonde.” If you’re wondering why Dominik continues to make films, despite his films not making much money…
Brad is the reason I’ve worked. It’s like, I make a film and then they put me in directors jail. And then Brad comes down to the parole board and says, ‘Look, he’s learned his lesson. He’s going to make something a bit more user-friendly this time.’ He protects me. I’m really lucky to have a friendship like that.
Lewis Hamilton’s Not-So-Fast, Not-So-Furious Road to Hollywood
Some mentions of Brad in Lewis Hamilton’s latest Vanity Fair interview.
As a racer, you’ve been both a rookie and a veteran. How did you use your experience to help Brad and Damson better portray these characters?
We did a huge session in London where they were just firing lots of questions at me, about my upbringing, how it was in karting, and the pressure from parents. Ehren was able to utilize that in writing and working on Damson [Idris]’s character. For Brad [Pitt], we spent a lot of time together, and he would ask, “How’s this?” We drove around the track together. He already had talent; he knew how to take corners already, which was quite impressive. Whereas Damson was really starting as a rookie. Damson didn’t watch racing, so it was a real culture shock for him, whereas Brad watches racing, so he had an idea already. They bring those two characters to life so well.
Damson Idris says he felt ‘absolute fear’ before F1 test drive audition
Damson Idris talks F1 in a recent Entertainment Weekly interview.
Though Idris never had a problem with the fast speeds, getting the car started was the true challenge. “I was really good at driving at crazy speeds,” the actor says. “I was really good at driving around the track and doing all the crazy turns. The hardest thing for me was actually getting a car started. The clutch is a hand clutch.”
Idris adds, “Brad was just exquisite at it. But man, there was some sort of coordination that just was not clicking with me. Once I got it started, I was ready to fly.”
Idris, 33, caught up with PEOPLE recently to discuss his fine jewelry line Didris. During the conversation, the British actor said the mentor-mentee-type relationship his character takes up with Pitt’s Formula 1 racer is “exactly the same” as the friendship they developed while making the film.
“It was a seamless dynamic between us. As soon as they’d yell ‘Cut,’ we both sat at our seats and giggled,” Idris recalls. “He’d be telling me stories of when he first met Prince and Sidney Poitier. And I’m like, ‘Oh my God, this is just too iconic, you’re a walking monument.'” Read more.
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