{"id":660131,"date":"2026-05-23T08:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T08:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/660131\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T08:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T08:41:14","slug":"bruce-dern-recalls-tarantino-pitt-confrontation-on-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/660131\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Dern recalls Tarantino-Pitt confrontation on set"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brad Pitt has been hot on the comeback trail for the last decade, and by comeback trail, we mean attempting to generate enough good press to paper over the very bad press from his divorce from Angelina Jolie<\/a>. Part of that effort was Once Upon A Time\u2026 In Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino\u2019s masterful fantasy about 1969 Los Angeles, in which Pitt plays the stunt double to a fading star. The movie netted Pitt an Oscar and an upcoming sequel, but according to Bruce Dern, it was also the movie that nearly killed his career at the hands of Quentin Tarantino.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaking to People<\/a> at Cannes, where the documentary about his life, Dernsie, premiered, Dern recalled shooting the scene at Spahn Ranch, where Pitt\u2019s character, Cliff Booth, investigates the Manson family. In the scene, he asks to speak to an elderly George Spahn, the proprietor of the movie ranch, who has taken in the family, particularly its den mother, Squeaky Fromme (Dakota Fanning). \u201cWhen Brad Pitt wakes me up in Once Upon a Time\u2026 In Hollywood,\u2019 I\u2019m in the bed, and I get up and I\u2019m a little groggy and stuff and I just say, \u2018I\u2019m not really sure what\u2019s going on,’\u201d Dern said. \u201cI\u2019m looking at him. [Pitt] cut the camera. He cut the camera. The look on Quentin\u2019s face\u2014I mean, he was insanely grave\u2014and he said, \u2018Brad, what did you just do?’\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said, \u2018Well, I cut the camera.\u2019 He said, \u2018Never again in your life will you ever cut a camera or you\u2019ll be dead in this business. That\u2019s my domain. Don\u2019t stop behavior,’\u201d Dern said. \u201cSo then we went on and did the scene and all Brad did was say to him, \u2018Well, that wasn\u2019t in the script what he said.’\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Obviously, Pitt\u2019s not one for improv, unlike Dern, who reportedly improvised the final line of the scene: \u201cI don\u2019t know who you are, but you touched me today. You came to visit me, now I gotta go back to sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cliff Booth will return in The Adventures Of Cliff Booth, which just secured an IMAX release<\/a>, this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brad Pitt has been hot on the comeback trail for the last decade, and by comeback trail, we…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-660131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}