As Quentin Tarantino's latest film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood opens in theaters everywhere, one street artist has taken the occasion to remind Los Angeles of the entertainment industry's rampant abuse of children.A street artist named Sabo claims to have vandalized a billboard in Los Angeles as well bus ads and benches across the city, renaming the film "Once Upon a Time in Pedowood" and replacing images of Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio with convicted child sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein and Roman Polanski. Other vandalized ads include images of alleged child sex offender Woody Allen added into the ad.
"I felt they should all share a billboard to highlight a decades-old problem that has plagued Hollywood for decades: the abuse of children," explained Sabo in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.
Epstein has made headlines recently for being convicted for years of child sex trafficking, Polanski had been convicted of raping a child in the 1970s, and Allen is accused of molesting his daughter, Dylan Farrow, when she was a child.
Written, directed and produced by Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood stars Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Burt Reynolds, Al Pacino, Tim Roth, Zoe Bell, Michael Madsen, Timothy Olyphant, Damian Lewis, Luke Perry, Emile Hirsch and Dakota Fanning.