10 Shocking Ways Actors Were Cast That You Didn't Know About
5. Diane Kruger Had To Jump Through A Crazy Amount Of Hoops - Inglorious Basterds
Not exactly known for being the most traditional of minds within this already often insane landscape that is the movie-making universe, the same Quentin Tarantino who has routinely found a way to nudge stars into his incoming projects whilst well and truly hammered had a rather bizarre way of landing on the actor for the role of Bridget von Hammersmark in Inglourious Basterds.
As eventual Bridget star Diane Kruger would reveal on the Reign with Josh Smith podcast many years on from the film absolutely smashing it with the critics and at the box office, Tarantino actually didn't want the actor anywhere near the part initially for one rather awkward reason:
"He auditioned everyone. He didn't want to audition me because he saw a movie that I was in he didn't like."
If the fact that Tarantino only presented the thespian with audition time because "there was no one left to audition" wasn't bad enough, the star was also forced to pay for her own flight from New York to Germany to meet with the combustable director.
The jumping through these many frustrating hoops only made Kruger even more determined to nail the role, however, with the actor thinking "You know what? F**k him! I'm just gonna do that and prove to him that I can do it."
And Kruger went on to do precisely that and then some.