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Quentin Tarantino says he fired Melanie Laurent from Inglourious Basterds as her table read was terrible, she convinced him to hire her back

Headline via Hindustan Times · first report 11 Nov, 19:08 IST, latest 12 Nov, 04:26 IST

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2 independent news organisations have reported this story. The first report we saw came from Hindustan Times at 11 Nov, 19:08 IST; the latest is from Variety at 12 Nov, 04:26 IST. Rational Times has not independently confirmed the details: read each report through the links below.

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First report11 Nov, 19:08 IST
Latest report12 Nov, 04:26 IST
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Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has revealed that actor Melanie Laurent was initially fired from his 2009 film Inglourious Basterds.
Quentin Tarantino gets brutally honest in Jay Glennie’s new book, “The Making of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds,” about his decision to fire Mélanie Laurent and Isabelle Huppert before production started on his 2009 revisionist World War II movie…

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