Leonardo DiCaprio ‘jumped’ to work with Paul Thomas Anderson in One Battle After Another; Benicio Del Toro said yes before reading script

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While it seemed that Leo had finally got rid of his PTA fever, Benicio Del Toro still looked infected and was almost giddy while talking about the director. He said, “Three words: Paul Thomas Anderson. I mean, he just came to me and said, ‘Hey, I got a script; I got a part that I want you to play.’ You don’t read it; I didn’t read it. I showed up and said, ‘Hey, what are we doing? Let’s do it.'”

Regina Hall added to that and said, “I could say it was a film about action, drama, and comedy; it’s just all three. I have to specifically say that it is a Paul Thomas Anderson film because his way of storytelling is so unique that all his work has that brand to it, and you can tell the moment you see it that it is his film.” Sean Penn shared his two cents about Anderson and said, “The freedom with which he writes is exciting. It has a lot of shifts in tone and great characteristics all the way down the line. It was a page-turner, and I think I called Paul right away and said, ‘Where do I go?'”

Teyana Taylor, who plays Perfidia, stated that working with Anderson feels “like home”, because the director chooses to work with people with whom he has been working for decades.