Leonardo DiCaprio has been known to embody the characters he plays during his hugely successful acting career.

On Wednesday, the Academy Award-winning actor was spotted getting rough and tumble on the set of Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in Los Angeles.

The movie is set in 1969 Los Angeles with the backdrop of the infamous Manson Family murders.

Quiet on the set: Leonardo DiCaprio was spotted filming a scene for the new Quentin Tarantino movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood on Wednesday

Rough and tumble: At one point the Academy Award-winning actor jumped on top of a car in the scene

The scene was shot in a rural setting with DiCaprio walking tall and tough as he carried a rifle. At one point hops into action and jumps on the hood of truck.

Stylists have him dressed in brown khaki-style pants with a black jacket and brown leather boots.

The mystery crime film, written and directed by Tarantino, has a star-studded cast.

DiCaprio plays the role of Rick Dalton, a former star of a western series. Brad Pitt plays his longtime friend and stunt double, Cliff Booth. The duo are a couple of Hollywood has-beens that looking for a way back on top in the movies.

DiCaprio's character lives next door to big-time movie actress Sharon Tate, who is played by Margot Robbie.

The movie also stars Burt Reynolds, Damian Lewis, Luke Perry, Emile Hirsh, and Dakota Fanning. The cast also includes appearances by Zoe Bell, Tim Roth, Kurt Russell and James Marsden.

Action: DiCaprio wielded a rifle during his action scene for the mystery crime movie

Dressed for 1969: Leonardo DiCaprio, 43, treated his 24 million Instagram followers to a first-look of himself and Brad Pitt, 54, in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood takes place during the Hollywood era of 1969,' Tarantino revealed at Cinema Con 2018 in April in a video posted by someone in attendance. 'It takes place at the height of the counter-culture explosion; it takes place at the time the hippy revolution and it takes place at the height of new Hollywood. And during this summer we will, little by little- street by street- and block by block, be transforming Los Angeles into the psychedelic era of Hollywood in 1969.'

The story reportedly does not focus specifically on the Manson family or murders, but instead uses the storyline as a backdrop.

Manson Family members Charles 'Tex' Watson, Susan Atkins and Patricia Krenwinkel butchered Tate at her and her husband Roman Polanski's Los Angeles home in August 1969 - leaving the word 'PIG' scrawled on the front door in Tate's blood.

In the house with Tate, who was pregnant, were coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Folger's beau Wojciech Frykowski, and Tate's hairstylist friend and ex Jay Sebring.

All of them were killed as well as was Steven Parent, 18, who had swung by the premises that evening to pay a call on its caretaker Bill Garretson, 19. Fortunately for Garretson, the Manson Family never came across him.

The very next night, Manson Family members entered the home of grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary LaBianca, and murdered them too.

Charles Manson ended up serving life in prison and only died this past November, a week after his 83rd birthday.

One Upon a Time in Hollywood is set to hit theaters in August 9, 2019, which coincides with the 50th anniversary of the so-called Tate-LaBianca murders.

Transforming Hollywood: On location in Studio City, California for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood