On Wednesday, we found out how the duo met and how “Basterds” came to be. In part two of the conversation, they talk about the battle between today and 10 years ago, the Nazi rewrite that made Brad scratch his head and how Quentin himself nearly played Brad’s character. Stay tuned Friday for part three.
On coming around to Tarantino’s historical rewrite:
Quentin Tarantino: I loved it when you were on the “Charlie Rose” show talking about “Benjamin Button” and Charlie Rose goes: “So, I hear you’re doing a movie about World War II.” Well, it takes place during World War II, but I don’t know if this is really about World War II.
Brad Pitt: To me, this is the cap on the Nazi-focused films. It’s just like [the Nazi film] to end all films. Where else are you gonna go after this?
Tarantino: That’s one of the things [“Basterds” star] Christoph [Waltz] said. He goes: “I think Quentin has killed the German Nazi film for all time.”
Pitt: Seal it. It’s done.
Tarantino: [Pitt] was very sweet when we had our big discussion about the movie, because he didn’t quite know about the ending. He had questions.
Pitt: Yeah, absolutely I did. [Laughs.] Are you kidding me?
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I love the way how Brad laughs in this interview! It made me smile :D