One Battle After Another has been generating a lot of conversation since its release last September, and for good reason. Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest feature film has been met with critical acclaim, including ranking among CinemaBlend’s top 2025 movies and earning a whopping 13 Oscar nominations. Among the reasons One Battle After Another has been so praised so much is for its action-packed moments, including the thrilling car chase sequence. Prior to this, there’s also a scene where Leonardo DiCaprio’s Bob has to jump out of a moving car, and CinemaBlend learned how this particular stunt was changed at the last minute so it’d be less painful for the actor.
Bob is forced to make this dangerous exit from the car when he and Benicio del Toro’s Sergio drive by a police vehicle right as Bob is taking a sip of beer. With authorities now on their tail for drunk driving and Bob racing against the clock to rescue his daughter from Sean Penn’s Colonel Lockjaw, Sergio, who was behind the wheel instructed Bob to jump out of the car so the cops wouldn’t interfere with his mission. Leonardo DiCaprio did indeed jump out and fall into a ditch on the side of the road, but that wasn’t always where the stunt was going to take place. As Brian Mochleit, One Battle After Another’s stunt coordinator, told me:
