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Tarantino fired Mélanie Laurent and Isabelle Huppert before 'Inglourious Basterds'—then rehired Laurent

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Tarantino fired Mélanie Laurent and Isabelle Huppert before 'Inglourious Basterds'—then rehired Laurent

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. Laurent ended up being rehired for the…

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