UB Spotlight: Women of ‘One Battle After Another’ Talk New Film

From Warner Bros. Pictures and Paul Thomas Anderson comes “One Battle After Another,” starring Academy Award and BAFTA winner Leonardo DiCaprio.

The film will be in theaters and IMAX nationwide on September 26th and internationally beginning the 24th of September.

When their evil enemy resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue one of their own’s daughter.

Oscar and BAFTA winners Sean Penn and Benicio del Toro also star alongside Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor and Chase Infiniti, as well as Wood Harris and Alana Haim.

Anderson directs from his own screenplay.

The producers are Oscar and BAFTA nominees Adam Somner and Sara Murphy and Anderson, with Will Weiske executive producing.

Leonardo DiCaprio Speaks on His Co-Stars!

We talked very early on about who should play Perfidia, and Teyana [Taylor] kept coming up. She needed to be very outspoken. What is freedom for this character is what Paul kept on bringing up, and that is to not have any fear, and Teyana was very fearless in her approach. Paul sets the template by giving you the tools and the soul of these characters, but he lets you own them, and her performance had a profound impact on the story and the characters right out of the gate.

Early on, my character early gets mixed up in this world of revolutionaries and probably chose the wrong partner to have an offspring with. Regina [Hall] plays this protector, this mother figure that is trying to protect her loved ones and ultimately a maternal figure to Bob’s daughter, Willa. Regina gives an incredible performance in this movie as sort of the base of moral truth in this frenetic world of revolutionaries that Paul puts forth to the audience. And she was incredible to work with.

And for Willa, we cast an incredible actress in Chase [Infiniti]. She just gives such a riveting performance. We got to spend some time in these great locations sort of hanging out, having coffee. We developed this—I don’t want to say father-daughter dynamic because that’s not what we were trying for off-screen—but this sense of humor and this way of teasing one another that infused its way into the movie and that I think is very authentic for this single dad who has to play the mother figure and the father figure.

Chase really took command of her character. We really needed somebody that could encapsulate the innocence of her generation, the cynicism of what they think of their parents, the world that they live in, and yet be strong and powerful and do this incredible transformation that she has to make in this movie, where that innocence is then lost.

Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor and Chase Infiniti Talk “One Battle After Another!”