Transcript for Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood
JIM STACEY: Rick Dalton?
RICK DALTON: You bet.
JIM STACEY: Jim Stacey. This is my show. Welcome aboard. We're real glad to have a pro like you playing the heavy on the pilot. Man, I got to tell you, I came damn close to being in The 14 Fists of McClusky.
RICK DALTON: No kidding.
JIM STACEY: Yeah.
RICK DALTON: Well, I tell you I just got my part for sheer luck. Up until two weeks before shooting, Fabian was in the part. Then he breaks his shoulder doing a Virginian. That's how I got it.
JIM STACEY: Hey, Rick, I got to ask you something I heard about. Was it true you almost got the McQueen part in The Great Escape?
POSEN: Hilts isn't it?
RICK DALTON: Captain Hilts actually.
POSEN: 17 escape attempts?
RICK DALTON: 18.
Never had an audition. Never had a meeting. Never met John Sturges. So, no, I don't think you could say I-- I almost got the part.
POSEN: Tunnel man? Engineer?
RICK DALTON: Flyer.
POSEN: I suppose what's called in American army a hotshot pilot.
RICK DALTON: But the story goes for a brief moment, McQueen almost passed on the movie, and during that brief moment, I apparently was on the list of four.
POSEN: You have other plans?
RICK DALTON: I haven't seen Berlin yet from the ground or from the air, and I plan on doing both before the war's over.
JIM STACEY: You and who?
RICK DALTON: Me and the three Georges.
JIM STACEY: Which three Georges?
RICK DALTON: Peppard, Maharis, and Chakiris.
JIM STACEY: Oh, man.
RICK DALTON: Yeah.
JIM STACEY: That's gotta hurt.
RICK DALTON: Yeah, well, I didn't get it. McQueen did it. And frankly, I never had a chance.
POSEN: 10 days isolation, Hilts.
RICK DALTON: Captain Hilts.
POSEN: 20 days.
RICK DALTON: Right.
Oh, you'll still be here when I get out.
POSEN: Cooler.
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