Quentin Tarantino let Christoph Waltz skip rehearsals to shock ‘Inglorious Basterds’ cast

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Quentin Tarantino has revealed that he instructed Inglorious Basterds star Christoph Waltz to withhold his full potential ahead of the film’s shoot.The writer-director spoke on The Moment podcast about Waltz’s character Hans Landa, the film’s central villain.The 2009 film came at a time when Waltz had not yet received much international attention, and consequently many of the non-German cast were unaware of who he was.“I got together with Christoph before we got to the big script reading with the cast,” Tarantino said, as reported by IndieWire.“I told him, ‘I’m not doing this to be perverse game playing…everybody is so curious about who is playing Hans Landa.