told People<\/a>, in an interview published Thursday, the incident occurred shooting a scene when Pitt\u2019s character, Cliff Booth, checks on Dern\u2019s character, George Spahn, who is blind.<\/p>\n\u201cWhen Brad Pitt wakes me up in\u00a0\u2018Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,\u2019 I\u2019m in the bed and I get up and I\u2019m a little groggy and stuff and I just say, \u2018I\u2019m not really sure what\u2019s going on,’\u201d the 89-year-old recalled.<\/p>\n
Bruce Dern claimed Brad Pitt got a major scolding from director Quentin Tarantino on the set of \u201cOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood\u201d (Pitt and Dern are pictured above in the 2019 film) Sony Pictures<\/p>\n
Dern (seen above in a portrait from Cannes Film Festival 2026) said when he improvised a line during filming, Pitt cut the camera, which angered Tarantino. AP Photo\/Scott A Garfitt<\/p>\n
Since he improvised that line, Pitt \u201ccut the camera\u201d \u2014 which Dern said angered Tarantino.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe look on Quentin\u2019s face \u2014 I mean, he was insanely grave \u2014 and he said, \u2018Brad, what did you just do?’\u201d Dern remembered.<\/p>\n
The famous director, 63, allegedly told Pitt, \u201cNever again in your life will you ever cut a camera or you\u2019ll be dead in this business. That\u2019s my domain. Don\u2019t stop behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tarantino allegedly told Pitt (both seen above at the 2023 Golden Globes), \u201cNever again in your life will you ever cut a camera or you\u2019ll be dead in this business.\u201d NBC via Getty Images<\/p>\n
After the scolding, Pitt allegedly said to Tarantino, \u201cWell, that wasn\u2019t in the script what he said\u201d (Tarantino and Pitt are pictured above at the 2019 Canes Film Festival). WireImage<\/p>\n
When they shot the scene again, all Pitt said to Tarantino was, \u201cWell, that wasn\u2019t in the script what he said,\u201d according to Dern.<\/p>\n
For the scene that made the final edit, Dern improvised a different line: \u201cI don\u2019t know who you are, but you touched me today. You came to visit me, now I gotta go back to sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n
The \u201cGreat Gatsby\u201d actor explained to the outlet that he used improv because Pitt and co-star Leonardo DiCaprio had already told him, \u201cYou\u2019re going to be in my movie no matter what.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dern explained that he improvised the line because Pitt and co-star Leo DiCaprio promised that he\u2019d be in the movie (Tarantino, Pitt and Elise Nygaard Olson are seen above on the set of the film). \u00a9Columbia Pictures\/courtesy Everett Co \/ Everett Collection<\/p>\n
Pitt (seen above shooting a scene for the film) plays Hollywood suntman Cliff Booth in the movie. \u00a9Columbia Pictures\/courtesy Everett Co \/ Everett Collection<\/p>\n
\u201cThey did that, and that touched me,\u201d Dern added.<\/p>\n
A source told Page Six, \u201cQuentin is one of Brad\u2019s favorite directors. They have great chemistry and respect for one another.\u201d<\/p>\n
Page Six has reached out to reps for Pitt and Tarantino for comment.<\/p>\n
In \u201cOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood,\u201d Pitt plays the stuntman for Hollywood actor Rick Dalton (DiCaprio), and the role earned him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2020.<\/p>\n
In his acceptance speech, the \u201cF1\u201d actor praised Tarantino for being \u201coriginal\u201d and \u201cone of a kind.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pitt (pictured above with Tarantino in 2009) won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 2020 for his role in the film. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Pitt (seen above last year) graciously called Tarantino \u201cone of a kind\u201d in his Oscars acceptance speech. Apple TV+ via Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cThe film industry would be a much drier place without you and I love the ethos you gave Cliff Booth,\u201d Pitt gushed at the time.<\/p>\n
The pair are collaborating again on \u201cThe Adventures of Cliff Booth,\u201d<\/a> the sequel to \u201cOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood,\u201d\u00a0with Pitt reprising his role from the first film with a script written by Tarantino.<\/p>\nDavid Fincher is directing the sequel, which comes out in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quentin Tarantino allegedly warned Brad Pitt he\u2019d \u201cbe dead in this business\u201d in a major scolding on the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":812275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[34947,568,1043,246972,185,172,22047,171,3193,53,29705,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-812274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-acting","tag-actors","tag-brad-pitt","tag-bruce-dern","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-directors","tag-entertainment","tag-films","tag-movies","tag-quentin-tarantino","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116612801852658565","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}