Veteran Hollywood star Bruce Dern recalled how Quentin Tarantino had scolded Brad Pitt on the set of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood after the Fight Club star “cut the camera.”
Dern, who played the elderly ranch owner in the film, described the ordeal during his appearance at the Cannes Film Festival for director Mike Mendez’s documentary Dernsie.
Bruce Dern recalls Quentin Tarantino’s warning to Brad Pitt on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood set
Bruce Dern, who has been part of the entertainment industry since the 1960s, recently spoke about an incident on the set of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. During the incident, veteran director Quentin Tarantino reportedly scolded Brad Pitt, one of the most acclaimed actors of his generation.
Dern attended the Cannes Film Festival this year for director Mike Mendez’s documentary Dernsie. The documentary is named after a signature improvised line or moment that Dern often adds to his performances.
During his discussion with PEOPLE, Dern recalled a moment from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. In the film, he portrayed elderly ranch owner George Spahn. “When Brad Pitt wakes me up in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, I’m in the bed, and I get up, and I’m a little groggy and stuff, and I just say, ‘I’m not really sure what’s going on,'” Dern described the improvised scene.
“I’m looking at him. [Pitt] cut the camera. He cut the camera. The look on Quentin’s face — I mean, he was insanely grave — and he said, ‘Brad, what did you just do?'” Dern continued, “He said, ‘Well, I cut the camera.’ He said, ‘Never again in your life will you ever cut a camera or you’ll be dead in this business. That’s my domain. Don’t stop behavior.’ So then we went on and did the scene, and all Brad did was say to him, ‘Well, that wasn’t in the script what he said.'”
Dern recalled that they continued filming, and he improvised another new line.
The 89-year-old actor previously starred in two other Tarantino movies, Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight.
Originally reported by Sourav Chakraborty on ComingSoon.
