There’s the crash of a wave and the scene ends. Vitals Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth, taciturn Hollywood stuntman and personal "gofer" Los Angeles, February 1969 Film: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Release Date: July 26, 2019 Director: Quentin Tarantino Costume Designer: Arianne Phillips WARNING!
— but a flashback reveals that Cliff and his wife, Billie, played by Rebecca Gayheart, were both drinking heavily and arguing while alone on a boat out at sea.
“Precisely,” said Pitt.
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While Cliff Booth is a fictional person, Tarantino does draw upon some real people for the character and his story in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Spoilers ahead! [8] He retired from stunts in 2003 after an accident on Don Coscarelli's film Bubba Ho-Tep, for which Kent served as stunt coordinator.
Through the paper’s history, it often showed at best a blind spot, at worst outright hostility, for nonwhite Angelenos — rooted and reflected in a glaring shortage of people of color on staff. What happened to his late wife? When they begin, Lee jump kicks Booth to the ground.
The movie does offer a few possible clues: At one point, Cliff says he spent time on a chain gang in Texas for hitting a police officer. Portrayed by. Trending Now. Pitt’s character Cliff Booth, based on Stunts Unlimited founder Hal Needham, “is Dalton’s best friend and stunt double, and the film’s plot finds them contemplating a trip to Italy to get into the spaghetti Western film scene.” As in real life, Needham was stunt double, director and close friend of …
Species. If the rumor that swirls around Cliff colors the response of others to him — “I don’t dig the vibe he brings on a set,” says a stunt coordinator played by Kurt Russell — it also partly explains the air of sad resignation that surrounds him, as Cliff lives somewhat in exile in a trailer behind a drive-in movie theater in the Valley.
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