Paul Thomas Anderson ‘s newest barnstormer One Battle After Another bravely dares to ask: what if you had a dad who cared about you? If that sounds glib it’s in fitting with One Battle After Another , which is as funny as it is revolutionary, as silly as it is serious, and at its heart is a film about a stoner dad who in spite of it all will go to the ends of the Earth for his daughter. So when we sat down with Leonardo DiCaprio , who plays an ex-revolutionary father figure on an epic quest to find his daughter, we asked about his own father, the underground cartoonist George DiCaprio, and how his legacy as an artist shaped DiCaprio as a performer.

So was the award winner’s passion for the creative—and acting specifically—something that was influenced by his own father’s outsider

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