We’ve already speculated that Kurt Russell maybe ties Quentin Tarantino‘s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood to Death Proof, as he’s playing a stuntman who sure seems a whole hell of a lot like Russell’s Death Proof character, Stuntman Mike. Russell is playing a character named Randy in the 1969-set film, which could very well be Stuntman Mike’s…father?
Tarantino is known to tie his characters together inside a loosely shared universe, so it only makes sense that Russell is playing such a similar character for a reason, right?
In any event, Leonardo DiCaprio shares the first full clip from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood today, and it puts Kurt Russell’s Randy front and center. Check it out below!
The film is a Pulp Fiction-esque tapestry of stories in and around Los Angeles in the summer of 1969, when Charles Manson and his followers massacred Sharon Tate and others.
Lead characters are Rick Dalton (DiCaprio), former star of a western TV series, and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Pitt). Both are struggling to make it in a Hollywood they don’t recognize anymore. But Rick has a very famous next-door neighbor… Sharon Tate (Robbie).
The 9th film from Tarantino arrives on July 26.
First clip. #OnceUponATimeInHollywood pic.twitter.com/VhPR4mqiK2
— Leonardo DiCaprio (@LeoDiCaprio) July 18, 2019