20 Things You Somehow Missed In Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

10. That's The REAL Maltese Falcon

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Margaret Qualley
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As Margot Robbie's Sharon Tate wanders into a book shop to pick up a copy of Tess Of The D'Urbervilles she'd ordered (more on that later), you'll likely remember the star sharing a moment with a little falcon statue.

You may not have clocked that this wasn't just any little birdie, though, this was actually the Maltese Falcon seen in the titular 1941 movie.

Not only that, you also likely didn't realise that this wasn't just a prop designed for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - it was 100% one of the real Falcons used in the Humphrey Bogart-starring original.

It turns out that Leonardo DiCaprio is actually part of the group that owns one of these iconic pieces of movie history, with this specific statuette going missing for 50 years before eventually turning up at a flea market in 1993

It was eventually sold to DiCaprio and his pals for $300,000, and was used during the aforementioned Tate moment seen in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

How cool.

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