Quentin Tarantino and Daniella Pick are expecting their second child

It was released at the age of 56, but in just two, Quentin Tarantino is going to become a father for the second time.

A rep for the director has confirmed to

that the filmmaker is expecting his second child with singer and model Daniella Pick, whom he married in 2018. The couple already have a two-year-old boy named Leo.

magazine

, the Israeli newspaper

was the first to publish the news that Pick, 38, was pregnant with her second child, and reported that she will give birth in the coming months, although the date is unknown. exact.

She has also not revealed the sex of the baby for now.

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The announcement comes just two years after Tarantino became a father for the first time with the arrival of Leo in February 2020. Then, the couple was about to choose another name for their first child due to the relationship that unites the director with another famous Leo.

"We almost didn't call him Leo because people were going to assume I named him after Leonardo DiCaprio," Tarantino revealed on

in June 2021. He then added that the little boy was named after his wife's grandfather, but also because in his "hearts" it was his "little lion".

With nine feature films as director behind him, Tarantino has repeated on more than one occasion his desire to retire young to dedicate more time to his private life.

In 2012, in an interview with

, he stated, for example, that "in an ideal world a filmography of ten films would be fine" and that he does not want to be an "old" filmmaker.

Asked why he longs for early retirement, the American did not hesitate to assure during a television interview in 2019 that he had just married and wanted to have children.

Tarantino and Pick married in 2018 after meeting nine years earlier while promoting

in the model's native Israel.

She, far from being an unknown there, enjoys a lot of popularity thanks to her family history.

Her father, Svika, was a star singer in the seventies and composed

, the song with which Dana Internacional won the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest.