Diane Kruger Slams Tarantino Over Inglourious Basterds Role

For his part, Tarantino previously told Deadline that he had explained his method to Kruger in detail and that she gave him permission to choke her for the scene.

“When I did Inglourious Basterds, and I went to Diane and I said, ‘Look, I’ve got to strangle you. If it’s just a guy with his hands on your neck, not putting any kind of pressure and you’re just doing this wiggling death rattle, it looks like a normal movie strangulation,” he recalled in a 2018 interview. “What I would like to do — with your permission — is just…commit to choking you, with my hands, in a close-up. We do it for 30 seconds or so, and then I stop. If we need to do it a second time, we will. After that, that’s it. Are you down to committing to it so we can get a really good look?”

Tarantino added, “We did our two times, and…Diane said, Okay, if you need to do it once more, you can.”