News Summary

• The writer and director is Paul Thomas Anderson, whose films are operatic renderings of human frailty.
• DiCaprio plays Bob Ferguson, a washed-up revolutionary and dad to a teenage daughter, Willa, played by Chase Infiniti in her first film role.
• Opposite him are Teyana Taylor as the absent mom, Benicio Del Toro as the ally, and Sean Penn as the villain.
• Both men rarely give interviews, and their life and work are the subject of bottomless curiosity and speculation.