Diane Kruger has revealed Quentin Tarantino was initially opposed to auditioning her for Inglourious Basterds.
The 45-year-old actor said: “[Tarantino] didn’t want to audition me because he saw a movie that I was in that he didn’t like.
Clarifying his own position at the time, Tarantino said he had taken explicit permission from Kruger before choking her.
Kruger has previously said working with Tarantino was “pure joy” after reports surfaced that she was allegedly unhappy about some scenes in Inglourious Basterds in which she was strangled by the filmmaker.