Who is Chase Infiniti, the revelation of one battle after another?

The young actress bursts the screen as a girl from Leonardo DiCaprio in the new PTA. A star was born.

Paul Thomas Anderson is a director of genius, Leonardo DiCaprio The best actor of his generation, Sean Penn deserves the Oscar for the best supporting role for his score as a strap of the bulb … The exit fromOne battle after another is accompanied by a slew of dithyrambes. But we should not forget in this concert of praise the young Chase Infiniti, who bursts the screen in his very first role in the cinema.

In the new PTA, this 25 -year -old actress plays Willa Ferguson, the cheeky girl and Bad Ass that DiCaprio had with another activist (played by Teyana Taylor). Without saying too much, in case you haven’t seen it yet, it illuminates the second part of the film (and its climax), holding the dragee at its game partners, however experienced. A star was born, and we have to stop a little on its dazzling trajectory.

Her full name is Chase Infiniti Payne, but she just calls herself in the infiniti. Chase being a reference to the character of Nicole Kidman in Batman Forever (Chase Meridian) and Infiniti a nod to the famous phrase of Buzz L’Éclair: “Towards infinity and beyond”. Did you say predestined?

A native of Indianapolis, Chase practiced martial arts in his youth, and was even a kickboxing teacher before breaking into comedy. A skill that she was able to take advantage of in the film (her character made of karate). She has also always been drawn to the world of the show, and in 2022 won a theater diploma at Columbia College Chicago.

She also set up a Kpop choreography group with friends, the Duple Dance Crew. An always active group, which posted its last video just before the release ofOne battle after another. In 2024, a few months after her diploma, she obtained her first credit as an actress in the Apple TV+ series Presumed innocent (photo below). She plays the girl there… from another Hollywood star, Jake Gyllenhaal.

Pure product of the COVIVe generation, Chase has experienced visio lessons and has become an expert to film her video hearings herself. This is how she won her role in One battle after anotherresolving the puzzle of Paul Thomas Anderson who was desperately looking for a young actress practicing a combat sport.

She did not yet know that Leonardo DiCaprio and Teyana Taylor would be her parents, and was not familiar with PTA films. “”I did not know Paul’s work very well“, she admits in Vanity Fair. “”But I thought it looked cool. I wanted to shoot action scenes.“”

“” “The character she plays is at the center of the film. She is her heart. And it is one of the few people in the film that is not mentally unstable“, Says the filmmaker, who validated his choice after a test between Chase and Leo to test their alchemy. A surreal moment for the young woman:

“”I had a period in high school when I was obsessed with Catch me if you canI looked at him all the time. So seeing it in real life was one of those crazy moments when the loop is complete.“”

Chase carries the film on the screen, but also on social networks where it is highly used to ensure the promotion of the blockbuster at $ 170 million. A precious help for its game partners, little comfortable with the Trends and the Codes of the Gen Z, or PTA which created its Instagram account just a month ago. If you see DiCaprio doing real and tiktoks for the first time in her life, it is thanks (or because) of her.

One thing is certain, it’s a potential star and the fashion world has not waited One battle after another To set her sights on her. A year ago, she was already invited to Paris Fashion Week by Miu Miu. And last March, she participated in a shoot of Louis Vuitton at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. This girl is special.

And the rest? Chase Infiniti dreams of playing a Disney princess and playing with Zendaya (“It was the first person I saw on TV that looked like me“), but his next role will be in the spin-off series of The Handmaid’s Tale,, The Testamentsadapted from Margaret Atwood’s novel which takes place years after the main story.

The shooting ended on August 15, and the actress promises a show at “very different“.”It’s a game of Gilead that we don’t really see in Handmaid’s Tale.“”