From movies.com
With the release of Django Unchained right around the corner, you’re going to be getting a healthy dose of Quentin Tarantino
over the next few weeks. The director is bound to turn up on countless
talk shows and conduct a multitude of interviews as he promotes his new
film, a story about a slave turned bounty hunter on a mission of
vengeance.
However, if you only want to catch one Tarantino interview, you should make it the one he recently conducted with Howard Stern. The Pulp Fiction
director spends an hour and fifteen minutes chatting with the
self-proclaimed King of All Media, and it’s not your standard late-night
talk show chat. After all, where else will you hear the details about
how Tarantino got Brad Pitt in trouble with Angelina Jolie because he
revealed he two spent days smoking hash as they tried to decide if Pitt
was the right fit for Inglorious Basterds (18:15).
In typical Stern fashion, there are no real off-topic subjects and the
conversation flows from Tarantino’s early days working in a video store,
a meeting with his estranged father, what it feels like to be
responsible for a $75 million dollar film, and more. It’s an
entertaining discussion to say the least.
Tarantino is candid and chatty (when is he not either of those things,
though?) and regales Stern with the story of how he spent days with Will
Smith before they decided he wouldn’t star as Django. He also explains
that he doesn’t think Owen Wilson is funny. “Comedy actors, you either
like them or you don’t. I just don’t think he’s funny,” he says of
Wilson.
He does, however, think Jonah Hill is amusing – which is why the actor has a came as member of the Regulators in the film.
In the last segment, Tarantino shares a bit of insight to making it in the biz – explaining how he wrote scripts for True Romance and Natural Born Killers,
but no one wanted to give him the money to make them. Tarantino stuck
with it, even though many readers complained about the way he wrote
dialogue-heavy screenplays filled with curse words, and he eventually
made it.
[via The Film Stage]
