Brad Pitt Brought Special Quality To Inglourious Basterds, Says Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino remembers Brad Pitt's performance in Inglourious Basterds and offers his perspective on what makes Pitt such a special movie star. Released in 2009, Tarantino's sixth feature film as a writer/director follows Pitt as Lieutenant Aldo Raine, the leader of a group of Jewish-American soldiers in France tasked with one singular duty – killing Nazis. In addition to Aldo Raine's Basterds, the World War II alternate history film also follows the young French cinema proprietor Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent), and her plot to assassinate Nazi Germany's leadership.
Following their first collaboration on Inglourious Basterds, the actor and auteur reunited on Tarantino's ninth and most recent film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Opposite Leonardo DiCaprio's Rick Dalton, Pitt played the fictional Hollywood actor's best friend and stunt double – the cool, calm, and collected Cliff Booth. For the role, Pitt finally took home his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor following past nominations for Twelve Monkeys, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and Moneyball.
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Tarantino spoke to GQ for a recent Brad Pitt profile and offered his perspective on what makes him such as special movie star. The director discussed how the actor's shape-shifting ability is a lost art among movie stars today. Tarantino also compared Pitt's star quality to that of Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Steve McQueen and gushed over his screen presence, remembering a special moment from filming Inglourious Basterds. Read what Tarantino said about Pitt below:
He suggests an older-style movie star. He’s really good-looking. He’s also really masculine and he’s also really
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