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    Once upon a time, Tarantino slept in his car and DiCaprio was a break dancer

    by Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times Jan 23, 2020 6 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - "I swear to God, I had to hide a tear," Brad Pitt says, looking over at Quentin Tarantino and Leonardo DiCaprio, remembering the first time Tarantino played him the Jose Feliciano cover of "California Dreamin'" on the set of "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood." "Look," Pitt continues. "I'm not ashamed to say it. I got a little misty."

    We've settled onto a couple of sofas inside a bungalow at the Chateau Marmont because ... where else would we meet to talk about Tarantino's wistful elegy to a bygone Hollywood? As the song declares, it's a winter's day, though the (palm tree) leaves are green, not brown, and the sun setting just beyond the swimming pool is making the sky periwinkle blue, not a dismal gray.

    But otherwise, yeah, we're California dreamin', sitting back, talking about a movie that earned 10 Oscar nominations - three for Tarantino as a director, writer and producer, and acting nods for DiCaprio and Pitt - and also considering the good fortune

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