Overview
- People published excerpts from Jay Glennie’s nearly 500-page The Making of Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, now on sale, featuring new accounts from Brad Pitt and Quentin Tarantino.
- Brad Pitt calls working with Reynolds during those sessions “one of the greatest moments I have ever had in this industry” and remembers him as “the guy.”
- Quentin Tarantino says Reynolds’ last performance was delivering the director’s lines during a rehearsal while Pitt acted opposite him under Tarantino’s direction.
- Burt Reynolds, 82, died in September 2018 before filming his scenes as George Spahn, after which Tarantino cast Bruce Dern for the role in the 2019 release.
- The book documents production stories and photos, noting Reynolds rehearsed scenes tied to the Spahn Movie Ranch sequence involving Pitt’s character and collaborators including Dakota Fanning.