Once Upon A Time In Hollywood How Old Brad Pitts Cliff Booth Really Is

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood: How Old Brad Pitt’s Cliff Booth Really Is

Brad Pitt’s Cliff Booth was one of the leads of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but the movie never mentioned his age. Here’s how old he is.

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Once Upon A Time In Hollywood How Old Brad Pitts Cliff Booth Really Is

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood starred Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth, a stuntman without the best reputation in the film industry, but how old was he during the events of the movie? Four years after his last movie, The Hateful Eight, Quentin Tarantino returned with Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, which followed the steps of Inglourious Basterds and told an alternate version of real-life events, this time set in the late 1960s.

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood follows actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stuntman and best friend Cliff Booth, who had worked together for years on many projects. As Hollywood’s golden age approaches its end, so do Rick and Cliff’s careers, and so they do their best to remain active and relevant in the entertainment industry. Many details about Cliff’s life prior to the events of the movie are a mystery, including whether he killed his wife or not, and even though he had been working as a stuntman for many years, his age was never revealed – but it can be calculated when looking at the actors who inspired the character.

Unlike other filmmakers, Tarantino doesn’t reveal the ages of the characters in his movies, but coming up with an approximation on how old Cliff Booth is in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood can be possible by looking at certain details, including Rick Dalton’s age. Some sites have listed Cliff’s date of birth as October 1932 and October 1914, but that information is not official. Now, what Tarantino did share was that stuntmen are usually 10 years older than the actor, and if taking Rick Dalton’s birth year as 1930-1931, then Cliff Booth would have been born around 1920-1921, making him 48-49 during the events of the film.

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The year matches with the dates of birth of the stuntmen who inspired the character of Cliff Booth: Hal Needham and Gary Kent. Hal Needham was born in 1931 and Gary Kent in 1933, and were both very active in the 1960s and 1970s. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood began filming in mid-2018, and Brad Pitt was born in December 1963, meaning he was 54 at the time. A big age difference between characters and actors is not uncommon in Hollywood, where much older actors usually play the role of teenagers, but in Brad Pitt’s case, he was closer to his character’s (approximate) age, so the difference is not distracting.

Cliff Booth being in his late 40’s makes sense in the context of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (more so as he’s mentioned to have served in the war), where actors over 35 years old were already considered old and outdated, just like Rick Dalton – and for a stuntman, that was much harder. Brad Pitt playing a 48-49 year old character was believable thanks to his talent and because he looks younger than he really is, which definitely made the character work in the context of the movie.

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