What’s new, Pussycat
In a world of elusive multihyphenates, it’s impressive that Margaret Qualley had not one but two quite solid career paths she could have taken. While she’s about to join some of Hollywood’s biggest names onscreen in this month’s Quentin Tarantino-directed blockbuster, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, things almost turned out quite differently for the Montana-born 24-year-old. Having already dedicated a good portion of her youth to ballet dancing, leaving home at 14 to study at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Qualley had a come-to-Jesus moment as she was set to begin an apprenticeship with the prestigious North Carolina Dance Theatre.
“It hit me like, and I didn’t think it was, so I quit altogether,” she recalls. For someone all of 16, it was quite the self-discovery. “[Ballet] takes so much dedication … you’re always striving
