10 Deleted Scenes Cut From Quentin Tarantino Movies
7. Trudi & Rick Dalton's Third Encounter - Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
One of the easy highlights of Tarantino's newest film is Trudi Fraser (Julia Butters), Rick Dalton's (Leonardo DiCaprio) precocious, 8-year-old co-star while shooting the pilot episode of "Lancer."
Butters steals both scenes she appears in, though it was revealed post-release that the young actress also filmed a spectacular third scene in the original, 4-hour-and-20-minute cut of the movie.
Though we don't know the particulars of the exchange beyond it being a phone call between Trudi and Rick, producer David Heyman said, "If she was in, she'd get an Oscar nomination for that performance," before adding that it ultimately "didn't serve the film."
Speaking of the same scene, editor Fred Raskin deemed it one of the best Tarantino has ever written, and yet despite clearly being fully edited together, it sadly never materialised on the film's Blu-ray release. For shame.