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2. Quentin Tarantino Gave Diane Kruger Role As Last Resort - Inglorious Basterds
Despite going on record to admit that her time working alongside Quentin Tarantino during the making of 2008's Inglorious Basterds was "pure joy" and that the director "treated [her] with utter respect and never abused his power or forced [her] to do anything [she] wasn’t comfortable with," Diane Kruger still was very much under the impression that she was something of a last resort for the Pulp Fiction visionary.
Revealing in conversation on Reign with Josh Smith that she knows Tarantino "didn't want to audition (her)" after not being impressed by a film of her's he'd seen, Kruger would go on to confess, "he didn’t believe in me from the get-go.”
If that wasn't enough, Kruger even went as far as to admit that Tarantino only offered her the chance to audition because “there was no-one left to audition." Hammering home just how disinterested the iconic filmmaker initially was in Kruger for the part of Bridget Von Hammersmark, Tarantino also refused to meet her in the U.S., with the star paying money out of her own pocket to meet him in Germany.
But knowing that she wanted to “change the narrative” and prove Quentin was wrong to snub her for so long, Kruger jumping through these aforementioned hoops and approaching the process with a "You know what, f**k him" attitude ultimately scored her the job and a vital part in yet another unmissable Tarantino flick.