Paul Thomas Anderson Wrote Junglepussy’s ‘One Battle After Another’ Role Just for Her — but This Scorpio Had a Few Notes

If you’re wondering what members of the French 75 chat about when they’re not breaking immigrants out of detainment centers or robbing banks, the answer is astrology. Or at least that’s what the cast of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” discussed in between firing prop machine guns and driving getaway cars in the vigilante thriller.

“We were all of us just there, chatting up in between takes, talking about astrology, talking about full moons,” Shayna McHayle, who plays French 75 member Junglepussy, told IndieWire. “Teyana [Taylor] was saying something about Scorpios, and I’m like, ‘I’m a Scorpio,’ and Leo[nardo DiCaprio]’s like, ‘Yeah, I’m a Scorpio.’ It was this whole thing.”

For McHayle, spending time on the set of a blockbuster action film with A-list talent was quite surreal, and not something she sought out, but the experience was “written in the stars.” While she…