LOS ANGELES − Amid themes of political struggle, oppression and resistance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s big-budget satire “One Battle After Another,” there’s laugh-out-loud comedy − especially when Leonardo DiCaprio and Benicio del Toro share the screen for the first time in the movie, filmed partly in Stockton in 2024.

“Think about ‘The Dude,’ if he was put into a modern context and was a revolutionary,” DiCaprio says of the robe, speaking in a joint interview with del Toro for the new movie (in theaters Sept. 26). “We had a lot of discussions, because I have one costume. Bob’s got his cape: the red robe he was getting stoned in at home alone when giant forces tried to ruin his life.”

The streets of downtown Stockton were buzzing in February 2024 as the new Warner Bros. movie filmed at Mai

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