Rising Hollywood Star: Julia Butters is the young actress who played Trudy in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Julia Butters began her artistic career early, but she made herself talk about herself after filming the ninth Quentin Tarantino film "Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood." The young actress is now only 10 years old, but Julia is so talented that she was able to outshine even Leonardo DiCaprio. What is known about the rising Hollywood star and why did Tarantino choose her for the role of Trudy?

From childhood on the set

Julia Butters was born on April 15, 2009 in Los Angeles in the family of Disney cartoonist Darrin Butters and housewife Lorelei Butters. The baby has shown acting skills since childhood, and her parents decided to give their daughter a chance to become a real actress. While the father was busy at work, the mother took her daughter to auditions, which happened one or two a month. At first, the girl took part in photo shoots as a model, and then more serious projects appeared in her life.

For the first time, Julia got on the set at the age of two, starring in a commercial. And two years later, she played her first role, starring in the role of Gabby in the television series "Criminal Minds." Later, the young actress starred in several more films and TV series, and at the age of seven she already starred in the popular American sitcom American Housewife, where she played Anna-Cat Otto. Thanks to this work, Quentin Tarantino drew attention to Julia.

Working with a star director

As you know, the famous director cannot create in complete silence, and therefore, while working on the script for "Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood", he habitually turned on the TV, where the next episode of "American Housewife" was being shown. While he was trying to give volume to the character of the young heroine of his film, there was an episode on the screen where a small actress in the form of Anna-Cat Otto read the monologue "Damn Becky". Then Tarantino realized: it was this girl that he needed for the role of Trudy.

Soon Julia was invited to audition. She was the very first person to audition for this role. Surprisingly, the young actress was not at all worried. This was also explained by the fact that she did not fully realize who Quentin Tarantino was, as she had not seen, due to her age, not a single of his films. The girl felt absolutely free, communicating with the star director, and managed to completely charm him.

According to Julia, he and Tarantino had a lot of fun at the casting, and my mother even had to leave the pavilion so as not to interfere. The director told how he worked on the image of Trudy, and the girl immediately praised him.

Julia accepted the news of the approval for the role with joy: the filming was supposed to take place near the Universal Studios park, which would allow her to combine filming and entertainment. True, the hopes for fun walks in the park did not come true: at the end of the day, the ten-year-old actress almost fell off her feet from fatigue and dreamed of getting to bed as soon as possible.

Nevertheless, Julia Butters has the best memories of working with Tarantino. Despite the fact that he immediately warned: he will not communicate with her as with a child, but will communicate as with an actor. On the set, he was always close to Julia, talked about Hollywood in the 1960s, even donated a disc from the show "Lancer". As a result, the actress became interested in the profession of director and screenwriter and began writing the script for her own short film.

Leonardo DiCaprio and others

The girl was also not familiar with Leonardo DiCaprio and did not see films with his participation, but this did not prevent the two actors from feeling sympathetic to each other. When DiCaprio and Julia worked on the set for the first time, some members of the film crew allowed themselves to express themselves in a not entirely censored way, the actor immediately stopped them. And he promised the mother of the little actress: he will keep these guys in check and will not allow them to swear in front of the child.

When the hero DiCaprio was supposed to throw Julia to the ground according to the script, after each take he asked if she had hurt herself, was she feeling fine. In general, he turned out to be an attentive colleague, called her a princess and was very caring.

The scene with Julia's participation is not the main one in the film, but it carries the strongest semantic load. According to the girl, Trudy taught her herself how to relate to work, how to become a real professional in her field.

For Julia, shooting with famous actors was a good school. They all treated her as an equal, but each considered it his duty to support her, to cheer her up. It seems that she managed to become attached to the entire film crew in her own way.

Once on the set, she happened to meet Steven Spielberg, who stopped by Tarantino, and now Julia dreams that one day she will be able to star in his film. She will grow up and will certainly fulfill all her dreams: she will act with another famous director, write a script and make her own film, and will win many awards. However, in the film "Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood" she played in such a way that neither Leonardo DiCaprio, nor Brad Pitt, nor Margot Robbie could overshadow her. This girl has a great future and soon the whole world will applaud her, admiring the professionalism and talent of the actress.

On August 8, 2019, the premiere of Quentin Tarantino's new film "Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood" took place in Russia. The picture caused very conflicting reviews from viewers: from complete disappointment to overwhelming delight. What is the reason for such polar opinions? In fact, before watching the film, you just need to get acquainted with some facts that will make it possible to understand: "Once upon a time … in Hollywood" is not only a tribute to Hollywood of the 1960s, and also an attempt by a famous director to rewrite history.