20 Things You Didn't Know About Inglourious Basterds
6. DiCaprio The Basterd
Leonardo DiCaprio played a bastard to stunning effect in QT's other period piece Django Unchained but playing a Basterd? Nearly...
Although Leo wasn't going to be part of Aldo The Apache's team of Basterds, he was in talks to play the role of chief bastard, the Nazi Jew Hunter Hans Landa. At one point, QT was going to abandon the project due to casting difficulties and ultimately decided that the role should go to a German or at least a German speaker.
The DiCaprio/Tarantino team up we all wanted would eventually crop up in his next film, Django Unchained, where he played the equally vicious bastard slave trader Calvin Candie.