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More Basterds Casting Info; Huppert Not Fired, Negotation Never Reached? Plus What Happened To Sophie Anne-Franck

Rodrigo Perez — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:21:00 +0000

This post might only be for hardcore geeks like us, but oh well, we’re friggin’ completists for better or worse and these are the answers to the kinds of questions we always have. Some of you hardcore “Inglourious Basterds” fans may have noticed a post we wrote a week or two ago that said, great French actress Isabelle Huppert was allegedly “fired” from Quentin Tarantino’s WWII epic because she was supposedly half-heartedly into the role (Madame Mimieux, an elderly French woman who owns a cinematheque that comes into key play later in the story), and was showing up to auditions late.

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‘Kill Bill,’ ‘Death Proof’ Actors Added To ‘Inglorious Bastards’

Rodrigo Perez — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:52:00 +0000

So Quentin Tarantino’s multi-tiered WWII epic, “Inglorious Bastards,” is up and running and currently shooting in Germany, right? Well, it looks like the last few pieces of casting went under the radar and its looks like the director went back to the well of old pals.

Tarantino has tapped Julie Dreyfus (“Sofie Fatale” from “Kill Bill”) and Michael Bacall and Omar Doom from “Deathproof,” which reunites the guys with Eli Roth — the three of them played the dudes in Tarantino’s “Grindhouse” half in the bar trying to pickup Arlene (Vanessa Ferlito), Shanna (Jordan Ladd) and radio disc jockey “Jungle Julia” Lucai (Sydney Tamiia Poitier).

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