Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie are goddamned radiant in new Once Upon A Time In Hollywood photos
Aux Features FilmSay what you will about Quentin Tarantino’s cinematography and storytelling—there’s plenty to say—but you can’t deny the transportive quality of his films, that obsessive attention to the prevailing trends, fashion, and pop culture of a particular era that makes them distinctly his. That continues, it appears, with his upcoming Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, which looks to luxuriate in its 1969 milieu in new photos shared by Vanity Fair.
Yellow, unsurprisingly, is a good look on a comfortably sun-baked Brad Pitt in the above pic, which finds the actor’s Cliff Booth rocking a tight, sunny tee in a golf cart just a few shades darker. Booth, who here evokes the lazy charm of the L.A. stoner Pitt played in True Romance, is the stunt double and best pal of Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton in the film. Dalton, a TV star trying to make it in film, gets to shine as both an action star—look at him leap, shotgun in hand!—and a variety show schlub in the photos, which paint a stark contrast between the two phases of the character’s career.
In addition to the round glasses Al Pacino’s donning as Hollywood agent Marvin Shwarz, the photos also highlight Margot Robbie’s Sharon Tate. There’s a palpable melancholy to her shots, an angelic quality that can’t help but be informed by what we know about the actress’ fate at the hands of the Manson Family.
Head to Variety for the full set, or see a smattering in the below tweets.
DiCaprio, Pitt, and Robbie star in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood alongside Bruce Dern, Timothy Olyphant, Lena Dunham, Luke Perry, Dakota Fanning, Clifton Collins Jr, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Scoot McNairy, and many, many more. It opens on July 26.
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Oh my, this looks so good. I can overlook Lena Dunham being in the cast. Hopefully. That’s a big assumption but everything about this looks rad.
hopefully it’ll be like when a movie has a really good ensemble cast and also Kurt Russell – maybe it’ll be good enough to outweigh the suck (example: Tombstone)
Pretty sure it’s a brief cameo – sight gag.Scene in a park, shows a rock (not wearing a bra & not funny).#DunhamAtHerMediocrest
wonder which one of them will say the N word?
SPOILER ALERT: All of them
Dunham will say it ironically, largely because she’s incapable of anything else.
You KNOW Quentin Tarantula will put himself in the movie just so that he can say it.
It’s OK, because Sam Jackson is his real life friend and his character has a black wife!
i have proof of you using “the n-word.”
We will see bare feet and hear the N word. Over under for both set at 10.5.
yeah but will it needlessly be an hour and half too long?
Combined? I’ll take the over.
I feel like one day he will put the n-word right in the title of the film so that the audience and ticket-sellers have to (get to, depending on how racist you are) say it too, so he can get it said the absolute maximum number of times. He’s such a piece of shit.
Yep. This is my most highly anticipated movie of 2019. QT joints are endlessly entertaining to me. There are better contemporary directors out there right now for sure, however, I just find Tarantino’s films to be the most ‘entertaining’.
Pitt has a bit of a Redford in Downhill Racer look going on here with the hair and the glasses.
They definitely have a similar handsome look to them.
They should star in a movie together.
Also, as I learned recently, a “Little Fauss and Big Halsy” look.
I’m SO excited for this—especially his return to a more modern day crime type movie (at least more modern day than his last few movies).
Great…CHAMPION is the new SUPREME
I’m still surprised Tarantino gets a pass in the Me Too era. He’s as complicit as April Bloomfield or anyone else that turned a blind eye to what was going on. And he cast a person – Emile Hirsch – who went to jail for nearly choking a woman to death. I think of those events when this movie is mentioned, not luxurious pictures.
It looks like it’s actually called Once Upon a Time (ellipsis) in Hollywood.. . .