Director Quentin Tarantino and his casting director Victoria Thomas blinded themselves by giving many small to medium roles to Hollywood’s younger generation in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt. As noted by A accountThese new actors were not famous in their time… find out what happened to them.
Sydney Sweeney
Sidney Sweeney has a few lines in Tarantino’s film, playing Cliff Booth as an observer at Charles Manson’s ranch. While she has been filming since she was young, she has since become very famous thanks to the series Euphoria, and the following year she landed a lead role in the horror film Nocturne (2020). After the White Lotus miniseries, 2024’s Everything But You, she becomes a star capable of drawing audiences to theaters with her name (along with Glenn Powell, with whom she shares a poster). She followed this up with appearances in Madame Web and most notably in Immaculée, a horror film in which she played the lead role.
Maya Hawke
Maya Hawke was spotted joining Season 3 of Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things in 2019 and signed on to play the role for Tarantino before turning to music. Two years later, he landed one of the lead roles in If you avenge me… for Netflix. In 2023, she starred with her mother Uma Thurman in The Kill Room, and then starred in the film Wildcat under the direction of her father Ethan Hawke, again starring on Netflix, in the maestro of Bradley Cooper.
Austin Butler
Cut your hair, beard, and take off your hat, and you’ll have the star of the Elvis Presley biopic: Austin Butler. Nominated for an Oscar for the role, which required a lot of prep work, the young actor was hired in quick succession by Jeff Nichols (The Bikeriders), Denis Villeneuve (Dune: Part Two) and John Orloff (miniseries Masters of the Air). His projects include upcoming films by Darren Aronofsky and Ari Astaire.
Julia Butters
If you think you’ve seen less of her than the other actors and actresses on this list, that’s because you’ve been missing out as the “alternative” Steven Spielberg’s little sister from The Fabelmans and the poster child for horror. The movie Queen of Bones, also starring Martin Freeman. Julia Butters, now 15, is an actress to watch.
Margaret Cowell
Once upon a time in Hollywood was one of only six 2019 films starring Margaret Quayle, who also starred in the Fosse/Verdon series and lent her voice to the video game Death Stranding. Since then, the one who played the seductive hitchhiker next to the stuntman Brad Pitt continued the momentum. Between 2023 and 2024, he signed Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Creatures and Kinds of Kindness, as well as Drive-Away Dolls and The Substance.
Mike Madison
The role of a woman who convinces her friends, members of Charles Manson’s cult, to commit murders in Hollywood for revenge. “Who taught us to kill on the screen”Since 2016, Mike Madison has been in the cast of Better Things, created by Pamela Adlon and Louis CK. Since appearing in Tarantino, she has been seen in the return of Scream, the detective mini-series The Voice of the Lake, and most notably Anora, in which she plays the lead role and which may earn her a nomination for the next Oscar.
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