1 of 8 | Leonardo DiCaprio, seen at the 2024 Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., stars in "One Battle After Another." File Photo by Chris Chew/UPI | License Photo
HOLD, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson cites Thomas Pynchon's novel Vineland as an inspiration for the film One Battle After Another, in theaters Friday, while star Leonardo DiCaprio drew on The Big Lebowski and Dog Day Afternoon.
DiCaprio plays Bob Ferguson, the assumed identity of a political activist living for years in hiding. Now father to a 16-year-old daughter, Willa (Chase Infiniti), Bob is unprepared when the government comes looking for them.
At a Los Angeles press conference with the cast and Anderson, DiCaprio discussed two very disparate references for Bob.
"Obviously, The Dude was an influence on this character in a modern-day context," DiCaprio said. "And I was also talking about Dog Day Afternoon with Pacino, that fanaticism that he has to get back and connect and save the person that he loves."
