Quentin Tarantino's story about his fictional actor Rick Dalton thinking he would work for Sergio Leone and winding-up with Sergio Corbucci instead is actually the true story of (and what happened to) a young Burt Reynolds, when he wanted to follow in his friend Clint Eastwood's footsteps to work for Leone, and wound up with Carbucci doing Navajo Joe, a movie that "Rick" and Quentin reference as Burt wearing a wig and looking like Natalie Wood in the movie, and the movie not being good. Reynolds himself detested it.