And…he’s comin’ to terms with what it’s like to be slightly more use -slightly more useless each day… He’s not the best anymore…In fact, far from it. And he spends more of his days in pain than…than he ever did before… He’s not crippled or anything like that, but he’s got spine problems like he never had before. Now he’s into his…late 30s and takes a bad fall and messes up his hip. Now, when Easy Breezy was in his 20s, and young, and good-lookin’, he could break any horse you could throw at ‘im. The guy’s name is Tom Breezy, but everyone always calls him “Easy” Breezy. ![]() Well, it’s about this guy who’s a bronco buster it’s the story of his life. Between Rick’s lung-rupturing smoker’s coughs, Trudi listens with her preternatural precociousness as the two sit outside an empty saloon set, surrounded by the skeletal hulks of a fictional frontier town’s Main Street-looming facades latticed with camera cranes and gaffer tape and power cables, a convergence of Hollywood reality and fantasy, of present and past, that serves as a cradle for what will be one of the most important conversations of Rick’s semi-wasted life: He always plays the Heavy these days, and hasn’t been the Hero of any story for what feels like a long, long time.Īnd about midway is where Rick Dalton is in his life, just like the main character of Ride a Wild Bronco, whose story Rick shares with his eight-year-old co-star, Trudi (Julia Butters). ![]() It’s where aging TV-turned-movie-turned-back-to-TV-again actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) says he’s at in the scarlet-paged, pocket-creased pulp Western paperback he’s reading, Ride a Wild Bronco.Ībout midway is also where he finds himself at this, the high noon of his day during the filming of TV Western Lancer ’s pilot episode in February of 1969, letting the glue dry on the drooping mustache that hides his Hollywood handsome-but increasingly seamed and saddleworn-good looks behind a whiskered mask of villainy…because Rick is playing Lancer ’s Heavy instead of Hero.
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