The full article is cool
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a65619469/leonardo-dicaprio-paul-thomas-anderson-interview-2025/
Lots of borderline spoilers about the movie though(if you don’t want to know much)
"That’s right. We got quite lucky with some of that stuff on this film. We shot underneath a freeway underpass, forty feet from the border of Tijuana, while we were raiding the immigration camp. I couldn’t tell the real immigrants who were sneaking across the border from the background artists that we’d hired. No one could. I’d watch them walk in the back of a scene and think, Is that a background cross or is that somebody really crossing? And it would be people that were really crossing the border."
Putting in spoiler tags because there could be considered some (very light) spoilers in here but this paragraph is insane lmao
meanwhile Marky Mark says it's his biggest regret
Leo would probably be good, but Wahlberg looks dumber, and I like that for the character. like, when he's arguing with his mom, he behaves like a little boy and it's great.
Why would he regret doing boogie nights?!?!
Why would he regret doing boogie nights?!?!
Hardcore catholicism

Why would he regret doing boogie nights?!?!
Mark is such a jackass
Back when he was marky mark and made a workout tape someone literally just tried to give him a handshake and he angrily refuses and says “no handshakes in the video”. And they left that in the workout tape, they didn’t cut it out.
Hardcore catholicism

People who come out hardcore religious like this, it’s just a way to give themselves a false sense of morality, look at his actions:
Wahlberg took part in racially motivated attacks as a teenager, in 1986 and 1988. In June 1986, 15-year-old Wahlberg and three friends chased three black children while yelling "Kill the n****r, kill the n****r" and throwing rocks at them. The next day, Wahlberg and the others followed a group of mostly black fourth-graders (including a victim from the previous day) taking a field trip on a beach, yelled racial epithets, threw rocks at them, and "summoned other white males who joined" in the harassment. In August 1986, civil action was filed against Wahlberg for violating the civil rights of his victims, and Wahlberg and his friends were issued a civil rights injunction which served as a warning that they would be jailed if they committed another hate crime.
Then,
In April 1988, Wahlberg, then 16, assaulted a middle-aged Vietnamese-American man on the street, calling him a "Vietnam f***ing s***" and knocking him unconscious with a large wooden stick. Later the same day, he attacked Johnny Trinh, another Vietnamese-American, punching him in the eye. When Wahlberg was arrested and returned to the scene of the first assault, he told police officers: "I'll tell you now that's the mother-fucker whose head I split open."85 Wahlberg later said he was on PCP at the time.86 Investigators noted that Wahlberg "made numerous unsolicited racial statements about 'gooks' and 'slant-eyed gooks'".87 He was arrested for attempted murder.89 He was charged with two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, one count of marijuana possession, and criminal contempt for violating the prior civil rights injunction he received in 1986.81 He pleaded guilty to felony assault and was sentenced to three months in jail, but served only 45 days of his sentence.8189 Wahlberg believed he had left the second victim permanently blind in one eye, though Trinh later said that he had actually lost his eye during the Vietnam War while serving in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam.9087
People who come out hardcore religious like this, it’s just a way to give themselves a false sense of morality, look at his actions:
Wahlberg took part in racially motivated attacks as a teenager, in 1986 and 1988. In June 1986, 15-year-old Wahlberg and three friends chased three black children while yelling "Kill the n****r, kill the n****r" and throwing rocks at them. The next day, Wahlberg and the others followed a group of mostly black fourth-graders (including a victim from the previous day) taking a field trip on a beach, yelled racial epithets, threw rocks at them, and "summoned other white males who joined" in the harassment. In August 1986, civil action was filed against Wahlberg for violating the civil rights of his victims, and Wahlberg and his friends were issued a civil rights injunction which served as a warning that they would be jailed if they committed another hate crime.
Then,
In April 1988, Wahlberg, then 16, assaulted a middle-aged Vietnamese-American man on the street, calling him a "Vietnam f***ing s***" and knocking him unconscious with a large wooden stick. Later the same day, he attacked Johnny Trinh, another Vietnamese-American, punching him in the eye. When Wahlberg was arrested and returned to the scene of the first assault, he told police officers: "I'll tell you now that's the mother-fucker whose head I split open."85 Wahlberg later said he was on PCP at the time.86 Investigators noted that Wahlberg "made numerous unsolicited racial statements about 'gooks' and 'slant-eyed gooks'".87 He was arrested for attempted murder.89 He was charged with two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, one count of marijuana possession, and criminal contempt for violating the prior civil rights injunction he received in 1986.81 He pleaded guilty to felony assault and was sentenced to three months in jail, but served only 45 days of his sentence.8189 Wahlberg believed he had left the second victim permanently blind in one eye, though Trinh later said that he had actually lost his eye during the Vietnam War while serving in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam.9087
Never apologized to them either from what I'm aware
DiCaprio: A lot of people say One Battle After Another was based on Vineland. I never read Vineland. You never spoke to me about it.
Anderson: Vineland was always going to be too hard to adapt, so I stole the parts that spoke to me and just started running like a thief. I
still can't wait but damn this is about to be even more loosely based on the novel than I thought
Mark is such a jackass
Back when he was marky mark and made a workout tape someone literally just tried to give him a handshake and he angrily refuses and says “no handshakes in the video”. And they left that in the workout tape, they didn’t cut it out.
I ain’t gon lie that entire video funny as f*** and unserious as hell
PTA saying this is his Star Wars and that Leo's daughter Willa is a Anakin/Luke figure
PTA saying this is his Star Wars and that Leo's daughter Willa is a Anakin/Luke figure
I saw on Twitter someone that saw a test screening describe the film as "like Tarantino directed A New Hope and set it during the present day"
I saw on Twitter someone that saw a test screening describe the film as "like Tarantino directed A New Hope and set it during the present day"
I saw on Twitter someone that saw a test screening describe the film as "like Tarantino directed A New Hope and set it during the present day"
that goes so hard
I saw on Twitter someone that saw a test screening describe the film as "like Tarantino directed A New Hope and set it during the present day"
I saw on Twitter someone that saw a test screening describe the film as "like Tarantino directed A New Hope and set it during the present day"
There's no f***ing way
PTA saying this is his Star Wars and that Leo's daughter Willa is a Anakin/Luke figure
I saw on Twitter someone that saw a test screening describe the film as "like Tarantino directed A New Hope and set it during the present day"
PTA saying this is his Star Wars and that Leo's daughter Willa is a Anakin/Luke figure
Where he say that???
meanwhile Marky Mark says it's his biggest regret
Leo would probably be good, but Wahlberg looks dumber, and I like that for the character. like, when he's arguing with his mom, he behaves like a little boy and it's great.
youd think his biggest regret would be the violent hate crimes