{"id":685314,"date":"2026-05-22T01:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/685314\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T01:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:01:10","slug":"quentin-tarantino-allegedly-threatened-brad-pitt-during-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/685314\/","title":{"rendered":"Quentin Tarantino Allegedly Threatened Brad Pitt During &#8216;Once Upon a Time in Hollywood&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260521_a6ec43263972466f8e0ac2cb757dda51\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:bd2b624b-4a61-44b6-b1bf-1b567514e1f0\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a6ec43263972466f8e0ac2cb757dda51_md.jpg\" alt=\"brad pitt getty 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/quentin-tarantino\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quentin Tarantino<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/brad-pitt\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brad Pitt<\/a> made a classic with &#8220;Once Upon a Time in Hollywood&#8221; &#8230; but it seems there was a super intense moment between the two men while shooting the 2019 flick.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Hollywood&#8217; costar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/bruce-dern\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Dern<\/a> explained<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/bruce-dern-recalls-quentin-tarantino-once-scolding-brad-pitt-on-set-exclusive-11980067\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> <\/a>that during one of his scenes with Pitt, QT got so pissed at the superstar actor &#8230; he threatened his career.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260521_f47a6877f00a4567b6ba704a4586f539\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:bd2b624b-4a61-44b6-b1bf-1b567514e1f0\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f47a6877f00a4567b6ba704a4586f539_md.jpg\" alt=\"brad pitt once upon a time in hollywood everett collection 1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Basically, Dern says he improvised a line, and a surprised Brad called &#8220;cut&#8221; &#8230; and that really sent Quentin over the edge, the writer-director allegedly telling him &#8230;\u00a0&#8220;Never again in your life will you ever cut a camera, or you&#8217;ll be dead in this business. That&#8217;s my domain. Don&#8217;t stop behavior.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A source close to Brad told TMZ &#8230; if this story is even true, the duo are pals who have done amazing work together. And once upon a time in Hollywood &#8230; no one would have even cared about this alleged moment. <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260521_9746f3113c384ab488d07e647774dc3a\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:bd2b624b-4a61-44b6-b1bf-1b567514e1f0\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9746f3113c384ab488d07e647774dc3a_md.jpg\" alt=\"brad pitt once upon a time in hollywood everett collection 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>From what Dern told <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/bruce-dern-recalls-quentin-tarantino-once-scolding-brad-pitt-on-set-exclusive-11980067\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">PEOPLE<\/a> &#8230; they got through the scene fine afterwards &#8212; and the movie was a huge success at the box office and scored Brad an Oscar for best supporting actor.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line, it&#8217;s all good, folks! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt made a classic with &#8220;Once Upon a Time in Hollywood&#8221; &#8230; but it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-685314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}