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Headline: Diane Kruger flew to Germany 'on her own dime' to audition for Quentin Tarantino
Caption: The German actress revealed to Variety that the Pulp Fiction director didn't want to cast her as Bridget von Hammersmark in his 2009 movie because he didn't think she was authentically German enough - so she flew to her home country to prove that she was the right fit for the character. "For Inglorious Basterds, Tarantino didn't want to hire me. He wrote it for someone else, he wanted someone 'authentically German,' which he thought I wasn't," "I had to fly to Germany on my own dime and he asked me to learn 15 pages of dialogue,..."
Keywords: CPS1658101,Diane Kruger,Quentin Tarantino,Actress,Audition,Role,Inglourious Basterds,Movie,Film,German,English,Bridget von Hammersmark,Character,Germany,Flew,Money,Script,Convinced,Friends,Filming
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