From Esquire

The internet melted for a moment back in June when Leonardo DiCaprio shared an image of himself alongside Brad Pitt, doubling down on the seventies style trend in a sneak peek of the upcoming Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

The ninth and (supposedly) penultimate directorial outing for Quentin Tarantino will see the duo playing two old Hollywood western actors. DiCaprio will play "Rick Dalton, former star of a western TV series, and Pitt will be his longtime stunt double, Cliff Booth."

The insanely A-list cast also boasts Margot Robbie, Dakota Fanning, Luke Perry, Damian Lewis, Emile Hirsch, Burt Reynolds, Timothy Olyphant, Kurt Russell, Michael Madsen, and Tim Roth.

And now we finally have our Charles Manson. The director has cast Australian actor Damon Herriman as the murderous cult leader, in what is his first major US film role.

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You might know him from crime-drama Justified, but he also won an Aacta award in 2016 for his performance in TV drama Secret City. Tarantino has said before that the film will not centre around Manson, so it'll be interesting to see how big a part Herriman plays.

Earlier in the month, it was announced that Girls star Lena Dunham and the daughter of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke, Maya, were joining the project too. Variety reported that, "Dunham will be playing a character named Gypsy. Hawke has been cast as the fictional character Flower Child."

The casting of Maya, who is also set to appear in the third season of Stranger Things, has raised eyebrows as her mother Uma Thurman recently spoke out about a car crash she was involved in while filming for Tarantino.

"The circumstances of this event were negligent to the point of criminality," Thurman commented on the issue, for which he has apologised. Does this mean they've buried the hatchet?

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Though the plot centres around the murder of Sharon Tate and four of her friends by Charles Manson’s cult of followers, Tarantino has been at pains to explain the subject of the film is not Charles Manson but "1969" in general, specifically Los Angeles in the summer of that year.

"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood takes place in 1969, at the height of the counterculture, hippy revolution and the height of new Hollywood," the director told CinemaCon in April. "Street by street, block by block, we'll transform Los Angeles into the Hollywood of 1969."