Teyana Taylor found out that she was going to be in Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film in a rather unexpected way.

“Paul kind of just called my phone randomly,” she remembers. “No agents, no third person, nothing. He was just like, ‘Hey, what’s up?’ And I was like, ‘Who the fuck is this?’ Then this calm voice just said, ‘It’s Paul. Paul Thomas Anderson.’ I just couldn’t believe that PTA was on my phone. And the rest is history.”

The project, and his reason for calling her out of the blue that day in 2023, was One Battle After Another . In theaters on September 26, the nearly three-hour film is a sprawling drama about a tight-knit revolutionary group called the French 75 who set out to fight the system and liberate the country’s most disenfranchised. Taylor and Leonardo DiCaprio play the s

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