If Leo DiCaprio had turned down Titanic and played Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights , who knows what might have happened? Instead, he honored his agreement with James Cameron, and the rest is history.

But although the decision turned out to be the right one, DiCaprio often wondered if he might have missed his window to work with Paul Thomas Anderson , an opportunity that no amount of money can buy. Thirty years went by, until along came the script for One Battle After Another — a satirical take on Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland — with an offer for DiCaprio to star as Bob, an Antifa-like radical gone underground who is forced out of hiding to find his missing daughter ( Chase Infiniti ). But, like PTA’s previous Pynchon adaptation Inherent Vice , there’s a lot more to it

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