On Marty Moon

During most of Killers of the Flower Moon, I was thinking of Rick Dalton—ever since Once Upon a Time in Hollywood came out, Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio are Cliff and Rick to me. When I saw Ad Astra in the fall of 2019, I couldn’t help watching it as if it were a sci-fi breakthrough for the stuntman; DiCaprio has only appeared in one other film since then, Don’t Look Up, and while his wardrobe and prosthetics went a long way, he was still the stuttering mess that he was in Tarantino’s film. In Killers of the Flower Moon, it’s even more noticeable, uncanny at times: he has the same Southern accent, the same stupid grin, and the exact same chortle. “I hope it was Indian for ‘handsome devil’!” sounds like something Rick might’ve said on the set of Bounty Law, or in the show itself.