25 Things You Didn’t Know About Pulp Fiction

22. Robert Rodriguez Directed Some Of Jimmie's Scenes

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It's no secret that Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have been close friends for basically the entirety of their filmmaking careers, but you might not know that this even extended to Tarantino allowing his pal to direct a few of the scenes where the filmmaker appears as Jules' (Samuel L. Jackson) friend Jimmie.

Rodriguez's work went uncredited, obviously, but he was able to return the favour to his friend barely a decade later, when he gave Tarantino a guest director spot for his film Sin City, shooting the scene where Dwight (Clive Owen) talks to a dead Jackie Boy (Benicio Del Toro) while driving.

This wasn't the only time Tarantino called upon help from a friend, though: in order to make a tight Cannes deadline for Inglourious Basterds, he had director-star Eli Roth shoot the film-within-a-film, Nation's Pride, for him.

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