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'One Battle After Another' marks Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio's first collaboration with filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson. DiCaprio and more of the movie's stars, including Teyana Taylor, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall and Chase Infiniti, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter's Tiffany Taylor all about working on the highly anticipated project. 'One Battle After Another' hits theaters on Sept. 26.

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00:00That felt rooted the first day. I was like, okay, I get this guy. He's trying to be a parent the

00:04best he can. He's an ex-revolutionary. One battle after another marks Oscar-winning actor Leonardo

00:11DiCaprio's first collaboration with filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson. DiCaprio and more of the

00:17movie's stars, including Tiana Taylor and Benicio Del Toro, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter all

00:22about the highly anticipated project. Benicio, your character in the movie quotes Nina Simone

00:28and says that freedom means having no fear. What's a scene that you remember filming it

00:33and you felt totally fearless and totally free? I think pushing Leo out of my car going 40 miles

00:41an hour. You know, I mean, you should ask him though, because I was driving the car. There was

00:48some fear there, but I felt freedom when we got it done. I don't know the answer. There's always a

00:56little bit of fear in every scene that you do, because you want to connect with the character

01:00and connect with the story. I guess like one of my opening sequences where I'm just, you know,

01:05a dad smoking pot going to go check up on how his daughter's doing in high school. You know,

01:10that was, that felt rooted the first day. I was like, okay, I get this guy. He's trying to be a parent

01:16the best he can. He's an ex-revolutionary. You know, he thinks the world is, you know, corrupt and

01:22society is, is fragmenting. Yet, you know, I've got to go do this, you know, daddy-daughter

01:29meeting and, and keep the wheels, you know, on the truck, so to speak, and keep going forward,

01:35keep on trucking. Definitely when I was shooting the gun, like that was to be able to just yell.

01:41I feel like honestly, like, uh, even when you were shooting the gun, I feel like that was a,

01:45that was a moment. Yes. Like that was like, she was her mother's child. And I think just like that,

01:51ah, like at this point, I don't care who walking up. I don't care if the daddy walking up,

01:55the op walking up. It's just like to see that level of like freedom in your face and also like

02:00in your voice is what I feel like shooting those guns and just like letting everything go.

02:05Like that scream for sure, for me personally. I think one of mine is probably like the first time

02:11that you see, will it take charge? Yeah. In her story. I think that was probably a moment that I

02:17was like, I'm free. I can do anything that I need to do. This is an announcement on revolution.

02:25The message is clear. I'll be seeing you very soon. Not if I see you first.

02:30All three of you give just such amazing performances in this movie. I just want to give

02:35you a chance to give each other flowers. You're looking at generations, right? Like,

02:40you know, this one and this one who are so talented. It is so, um, rich to watch. And because

02:51they are both so amazing in this film, but they are amazing people. You, when you get to work with

02:57someone who is, um, who you respect as an artist and as a person, like, I feel like that's when you

03:05hit the lottery. Like you can genuinely, when they're not around and someone says, so give me

03:10you know, tell me, how was it? And you can be like, nah, they, they, they're, they're pretty epic.

03:14And she's a Sag. So that's just like, her points just went on. It was already to the sky, but it's just like,

03:20We sat at that dinner table. We were both Sages. And we were like, mm.

03:23And then she's really, really, she's already a legend in her own right. But to me, she's really like a legend

03:27in my world and icon in my world. Cause it's like, it goes back to paid in full. It goes back to like

03:31so many things that you've done. And being a Harlem girl, you know, paid in full was like,

03:36you know, so it's just like, so it's crazy. Cause it's like being in scary movies like that is like

03:42amazing. But I seen her in a serious space before I seen her in a funny space, you know?

03:48So when people are like shocked that she's like one of the goats, I'd be like,

03:53y'all just, y'all not watching enough because my girl like been in this bag for a very, very long time.

03:59Me and mom, we used to run around and do some real bad.

04:04They got hurt. Now they're coming after us.

04:08While the film is a dramatic, epic action thriller, it's also infused with humor.

04:12For each of you, what was it like balancing the intensity with the levity?

04:16You know, I think the levity was, was there because of the circumstances, because of the plot.

04:22So now you can play against it a little bit. You can, you can, and let, be, be in the moment.

04:28And I think, I think in order to be funny, you have to be serious.

04:34You know, I never felt like I was laughing at my character or laughing at his character.

04:42I felt like if something happened that was funny, it was real, you know?

04:45And I think that's how I feel when I see the movie.

04:47One battle after another hits theaters on September 26th.

04:51For more on the film, go to THR.com.

04:54For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.

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