#Julia butters once upon a time series

“He was really nice and went that extra step to direct me,” Butters notes. To make her comfortable during filming, the director would get down on the ground and speak to her on her level. “And my mom yelled from across the room, ‘I approve!'”īy the time Butters got to that star-packed table read, which also included Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, she already had her part memorized, as Tarantino had her audition with her actual lines from the film.

“We were all talking and he said, ‘The 12-year-old in me wants to marry you,'” Butters recalls with a laugh. Perry was not the only late star Butters had the opportunity to work with on the film, in which she steals scenes as a child prodigy who must teach fallen actor Rick Dalton (DiCaprio) to get his groove back.īurt Reynolds, who originally was to play ranch owner George Spahn, attended a cast table read before his death last September.

#Julia butters once upon a time series

Perry, who died unexpectedly in March at the age of 52, played an actor on Lancer, the real-life late ’60s Western TV series Bell and Leonardo DiCaprio’s characters appear in during Once Upon a Time.