Overview
- Bruce Dern recounted the episode to People at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, saying the story took place during 2019 filming of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
- Dern says he improvised a line in a scene with Brad Pitt and that Pitt responded by calling 'cut' to stop the camera.
- Dern quoted Quentin Tarantino as angrily warning Pitt, 'Never again in your life will you ever cut a camera or you'll be dead in this business,' and ordering that cutting behavior to stop.
- The actors then resumed filming and Dern improvised a different line that ended up in the movie's final edit.
- Representatives for Tarantino and Pitt had no immediate comment and outlets note renewed interest in the anecdote because Tarantino wrote a Cliff Booth follow‑up that David Fincher will direct, which is reported to open in IMAX for two weeks starting Nov. 25.