Leonardo DiCaprio and Benicio Del Toro on ‘One Battle After Another’: 'It's a mirror for what's going on in our world'

Leonardo DiCaprio had been wanting to work with Paul Thomas Anderson for nearly 30 years.

The Oscar winner famously turned down the leading role in Anderson’s 1997 drama Boogie Nights — a move he told Esquire in a recent cover story that he regrets. But with their first partnership, One Battle After Another , hitting theatres this week, DiCaprio says that he’s glad they’re finally teaming up for a project that blends so many of the genres he loves, including action and political satire.

The ambitious new film from Anderson, simply referred to by movie lovers as PTA, fleshes out ideas the Oscar-nominated writer and director has been kicking around for almost two decades.

In his latest work, DiCaprio plays Bob Ferguson, a onetime member of a revolutionary group who is forced bac