Leonardo DiCaprio & Teyana Taylor on Feeling "Free" While Filming 'One Battle After Another' | THR News Video - video Dailymotion

Hollywood Journal

'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.

Transcript

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

00:23about 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

00:32filming it and you felt totally fearless and totally free? I think pushing Leo out

00:39of my car going 40 miles an hour. You know, you should ask him though, because I was

00:46driving the car. There was some fear there, but I felt freedom when we got it done.

00:51I don't know. I don't know the answer. There's always a little bit of fear in

00:57every scene that you do because you want to connect with the character and connect with

01:01the story. I guess like one of my opening sequences where I'm just, you know, a dad

01:05smoking 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, he's

01:15trying to be a parent the best he can. He's an ex-revolutionary. You know, he thinks the world

01:20is, you know, corrupt and society is, is fragmenting yet. You know, I've got to go

01:26do this, you know, daddy daughter meeting and, and keep the wheels, you know, on the

01:33truck, so to speak, and keep going forward, keep on trucking.

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

01:42honestly, like, uh, even when you were shooting the gun, I feel like that was a, that was a, a moment.

01:46Yes. Like that was like, she was her mother's child. And I think just like that, ah, like

01:52at this point, I don't care who walking up. I don't care if the daddy walking up, the op

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

02:00like in your voice is what I feel like shooting those guns. It's just like letting

02:04everything go. Like that scream for sure. For me personally, I think one of mine is

02:10probably like the first time that you see Willa take charge in, in her story. I think

02:15that was probably a moment that I was like, I'm free. I can do anything that I need to

02:21do.

02:22This is an announcement, a revolution. The message is clear.

02:27I'll be seeing you very soon.

02:29Not if I see you first.

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

02:35give you a chance to give each other flowers.

02:37You're looking at generations, right? Like, you know, this one and this one who are so

02:44talented. It is so rich to watch. And because they are both so amazing in this film, but they

02:54are amazing people. When you get to work with someone who is, who you respect as an artist

03:02and as a person, like, I feel like that's when you hit the lottery. Like you can genuinely,

03:07when they're not around and someone says, so give me, you know, tell me how was it? And

03:11you can be like, no, they, they, they're, they're pretty epic.

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

03:19but it's just like, we both Sages.

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

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

03:26me, she's really like a legend in my world and icon in my world. Cause it's like, it goes

03:29back to paid in full. It goes back to like so many things that you've done and being

03:34a Harlem girl, you know, paid in full was like, you know, so it's just like, so it's crazy

03:39because it's like being in scary movies and stuff like that is like amazing. But I seen

03:45her in a serious space before I seen her in a funny space, you know? So when people are like

03:49shocked that she's like one of the goats, I'd be like, I mean, y'all just, y'all not

03:54watching enough because my girl like been in his bag for a very, very long time.

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

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

04:21plot. So now you can play against it a little bit. You can, you can, and let, be, be in the

04:28moment. And 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? And I think that's how I

04:46feel when I see the movie.

04:48One battle after another hits theaters on September 26th. For more on the film, go to THR.com.

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

Leonardo DiCaprio & Teyana Taylor on Feeling "Free" While Filming 'One Battle After Another' | THR News Video

Category

Transcript

Be the first to comment

Recommended