"Once Upon a Time In Hollywood" Cast on How Hollywood is Changing

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Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, and Quentin Tarantino spoke with Brut about how the endless content stream is changing Hollywood — and how one of the "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" stars wants to see dinosaurs.

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00:00Since you guys got started in the 90s,

00:02you've had such a great career.

00:03From then to now, what do you think

00:06has really changed in the business?

00:08A lot of things, a lot of things.

00:09I mean, I think people's attention span has changed a lot.

00:14I mean, there's new streaming services,

00:16the ability to access anything at any time,

00:19the fact that you have new content every single day.

00:22Kind of takes the thrill out of, you know,

00:24waiting for, you know, a giant sort of Hollywood picture

00:28to come out.

00:29I don't know if that's gonna become

00:31a fossil of the past or not.

00:32We hope it doesn't, but at the same time,

00:35it's also bringing in the ability for financing

00:39for incredible new ideas, filmmakers, diversity,

00:43storytelling, that I think is incredibly exciting.

00:47I think that some of the stories

00:49that I've tried to develop for years

00:52would never have a shot in hell

00:53of being financed or told or shown to the world.

00:57Things that, you know, are a gamble financially.

01:00And now, with these new streaming services,

01:02a lot of these stories that we would never,

01:04that would never have the amount of quality

01:07put into them, we're getting to see.

01:10So that's exciting.

01:11That's exactly right.

01:12It's just this wealth of talent

01:15from writing, directing, acting.

01:18It's quite extraordinary to watch.

01:21And at the same time, questions of, you know,

01:24where will the film experience land

01:27and what is disposable?

01:29I think disposability is the real question right now.

01:35I'm Rick Dalton.

01:36It's my pleasure, Mr. Schwartz.

01:38Call me Marvin, put it down.

01:40That your son?

01:41No, that's my stunt double, Cliff Booth.

01:43All right, what's the matter, partner?

01:46It's official, old buddy.

01:48It has been.

01:49Hey!

01:50You're Rick Dalton.

01:52Don't you forget it.

01:54All right, all right, all right, all right.

01:58If you could go back to any decade

02:00that you've, you know, ever cared about,

02:02why would you go back to that decade?

02:04Within the last century or through all of time?

02:07The last century.

02:08Oh, that would have been cool.

02:10Yeah.

02:10It would have been cool to see dinosaurs.

02:14Although we would have been standing in magma,

02:16it would have been cool to see the creation of Earth.

02:17Yeah.

02:18What time period?

02:19What decade in the last century?

02:21I know you're gonna have a good answer.

02:22Well, I gotta say, one of the things is,

02:24whenever I watch movies that take place

02:28actually in Hollywood in like 63 or 64,

02:32you know, where Dino's is on the Sunset Strip

02:36and people are living at Larchmont Village

02:39and driving around in those kind of like

02:42convertible sports cars,

02:46you know, that whole Hollywood Boulevard,

02:47the Sunset Strip, especially at that time,

02:50that seems just chic and cool as hell.

02:54But I wish I always thought,

02:55boy, I wouldn't mind being me then.

02:59Yeah.

03:00I gotta be me.

03:01And I wanna have what I have now,

03:03but have it then.

03:06I'd like to redo the 90s.

03:08Maybe get another shot at the 90s.

03:1120s or 60s for me.

03:12Yeah, me too.

03:1320s, not 60s.

03:15I'd say 20s into the 30s to see.

03:17It would have been cool to see the silent film era.

03:20It would have been interesting.

03:21When it was like the Wild Wild West

03:22and there were no rules

03:24and it was absolute bedlam.

03:26That sounds cool.

03:27I literally just watched two movies

03:29about the making of movies in the silent days.

03:31I watched Peter Bogdanovich's Nickelodeon

03:34and there's a really interesting Russian movie

03:36on the same subject by Nikita Mikhailov

03:39called Slave of Love

03:42and they're both about the same,

03:43about the one-reelers, you know,

03:44like little, it's pretty interesting.

03:46It was pretty interesting.

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