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Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Chase Infiniti during the Los Angeles press conference for ‘One Battle After Another.’ Shutterstock for Warner Bros. It has taken two decades for filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson’s vision of One Battle After Another to hit the big screen. However, not all the pieces of the puzzle took quite so long to come together. “We were just doing an interview and joking that I might have been noodling around this for 20 years, but Benicio del Toro came in to do his sequence, and we wrote the best sequence in the movie in a day and a night at dinner. It was always evolving,” he recalls during a press conference in Hollywood, California. Bigger picture, it was a relief for Anderson, often referred to as simply PTA, to finally get the production underway. “We have our premise, we have our story points, we have our characters, but there has to be room for discovery within reason. You can’t get out there and hope and cross your fingers that you’re going to find something, but we had found enough foundation and enough emotional plot work to get to currency, to get gambling, to go to the table and start playing.” An Iconic Coen Brothers Character Inspire DiCaprio’s ‘One Battle After Another’ Performance One Battle After Another sees Leonardo DiCaprio play a washed-up, permanently stoned and paranoid revolutionary Bob Ferguson who is living off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa, played by Chase Infiniti. When his nemesis, Sean Penn’s Col. Steven J. Lockjaw, resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, Bob scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past. R-rated One Battle After Another is not based on a true story; it is inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel,…

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