Julia butters elf10/4/2023 And the takes that they used weren’t even the most powerful takes. He was in full-on Django mode, from what I’ve heard from my parents. Was it the best acting you’d seen in your whole life? In the movie, you say that Leo’s character did the best acting you’d seen in your whole life. But now I’ve seen Titanic start to finish. Nothing but this one, and I haven’t even seen the ending of this one. I’ve heard before this you’d never seen a Leonardo DiCaprio movie. I actually liked in-between takes, when I would get to talk with Quentin and Leo, and walk around the Western set. What was your favorite part of the scenes you shot? The scene will have more emotion and it will make more sense. And to really listen to the other character, so it will be more meaningful. He told me to take my time with the lines. What sort of direction did Quentin give you? He would also pick me up and show me different shots. He would let me hold the monitor and sit in his director’s chair. In one of the scenes I was laying down so he would actually lay down, too, to get down to my level, directing me. He would always get on the floor to direct me because I’m short. It also helped me bond with the director. We could actually talk and experience being together. Everyone would listen to you, so that was nice. There were no phones on the movie set, so I got to really communicate. How did being on the Once Upon a Time set compare to being on a TV set? It still works! I don’t know how, but it does. My mom would read to me and I would learn my lines that way because I didn’t know how to read. I actually didn’t know how to read as a baby, when I started doing this. Reading the script and seeing how my character acts, I was like, maybe that can bleed into my performance and help me become more professional. She doesn’t eat before a scene, she wants to be addressed by her character’s name. Your character has a lot of rules for herself when she’s on set. We were telling jokes and laughing, and telling stories. We had to leave the room because we were laughing too hard. Quentin actually auditioned me first, before anybody else. What was the audition process like for this one? I kind of grew into it, and I’ve loved it ever since. I actually did baby modeling for pictures, and that led to baby commercials. I want to start out with a very general question: What made you want to be an actor? In the middle of what’s become an incredibly busy summer for her, Butters took the time to call up Vulture to talk about the lessons she learned from Tarantino, the Leo takes we didn’t see, and her blind cat. In a film that casts a jaded eye toward most ’60s youth culture, there’s at least one kid who’s all right. She aced the audition, and soon proved up to the task of facing off with an Oscar-winning scene partner. A veteran of the ABC sitcom American Housewife, Butters was spotted by Tarantino when he had the series playing as background noise while he wrote the script. It might then be a sign Tarantino is mellowing somewhat that his latest film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, contains an interlude where Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton gets acting tips from his young co-star, played by 10-year-old Julia Butters. The films of Quentin Tarantino are not usually known for having strong roles for child actors, which - considering the director’s penchant for violent, eye-gouging spectacle - is probably a good thing for child actors.
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