Quentin Tarantino broadcasts dying of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ‘star’
Quentin Tarantino introduced the unhappy news this weekend on social media. However, the one catch is the actor who he studies to have died doesn’t really exist.
Rick Dalton, who “died” on Saturday aged 90, was the lead actor character Leonardo DiCaprio performed in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
In the 2019 Oscar-nominated function, the star portrayed him as a washed-up former Western TV actor struggling to make it within the New Hollywood of 1969.
Since the movie’s launch, Tarantino has penned a novelisation of the film and has confessed to having drawn up the fictional character’s life and profession as much as in the present day together with interactions at movie screenings with himself.
Yet now the director has determined to kill off Rick and has plans to pay tribute to him.
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Tarantino tweeted on The Video Archives Podcast Twitter feed: “We are saddened by the news of the passing of actor Rick Dalton, best known for his roles in the hit TV series Bounty Law and The Fireman trilogy. Rick passed away peacefully in his home in Hawaii and is survived by his wife Francesca. RIP Rick Dalton 1933-2023.”
The news comes simply in time for DiCaprio to hit the purple carpet on the Cannes Film Festival together with his new film Killers of the Flower Moon.
Tarantino added: “Because of his passing, the episode for Rollerball has been postponed. Instead, we will come back on Tuesday with a memorial episode designed by Quentin that features some of Rick’s best roles.”
The Video Archives Podcast is an audio present the director hosts with Roger Avary during which they overview movies that might have been accessible for rental on the titular retailer they each used to work at earlier than making it massive in Hollywood.
After Video Archives closed in 1995, Tarantino bought its VHS assortment and had the shop rebuilt in his residence.