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Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio Recall Being Starstruck by Luke Perry: "We Were Like Kids"

Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio in Esquire Summer 2019 Issue

Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio Recall Being Starstruck by Luke Perry: "We Were Like Kids"

May 23, 2019 by Monica Sisavat Solís First Published: May 21, 2019

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On what working with Brad was like for Leo: "When we were doing the movie, my relationship with Brad clicked. It was very early on where he improvised a line and it changed everything. In the scene, as it was written, I'm coming to set hungover and I am basically getting my fate handed to me, discovering what my future is going to be in this industry and I'm really down. In the scene, Brad ad-libs; he just comes out with this line, he looks at me and says, 'Hey, you're Rick f*cking Dalton. Don't you forget that.'"
On where Brad came up with that ad-lib: "True story, this was probably early '90s. I was on set and I was whining about something and lamenting something. I was pretty low. And this guy said to me, 'Get your head up, hold your head up. Quit your whining. You're Brad f*cking Pitt. I would like to be Brad f*cking Pitt.' It did me a favor. I needed to hear it. That day, I flashed on that. The way Quentin's scene was constructed, it reminded me of it."

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