As part of its summer women's fashion supplement, the New York Times has posted a video interview with Diane Kruger, who will play femme fatale Bridget von Hammersmark in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. In this "screen test" she talks about her love of Mary Poppins, how dangerous she is when her German accent starts to come out, and her initial difficulties in landing a part in Inglourious Basterds. At first, she says, Tarantino was reluctant to cast her and didn't believe that she was really German, but was ultimately won over by her authenticity and enthusiasm for the part. We can see what other charms won over the notorious bad boy auteur in the accompanying photo spread featuring Tarintino with his newest find, suggestively titled The Call Back.
As for the less-socially-polished side of the production, a new poster for the movie has been released with the header "Brad Pitt Is a Basterd." In an effort to make the glamorous Pitt suitably unsavory and scruffy-looking, the poster plays up his nasty looking neck scar and the perfected look of a man who finds too much thinking difficult.