This would mean that, in the world of the film, villainous character Calvin Candie is not actually played by Leonardo DiCaprio, but the actor’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood character Rick Dalton.
Earlier this month, Tarantino released a novelisation of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, featuring Dalton and Brad Pitt’s stuntman character, Cliff Booth.
A meta theory suggests that Quentin Tarantino film Django Unchained is actually a film within a film.
The theory states: “We have no clue as of today what happened to Dalton after Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.