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Diane Kruger responds to Quentin Tarantino Inglorious Basterds choking claims: 'My work experience was pure joy'
'He treated me with utter respect and never abused his power or forced me to do anything I wasn’t comfortable with'
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Your support makes all the difference.Diane Kruger has discussed her experience working with Quentin Tarantino, after reporting and rumour implied that she was unhappy about scenes in which she was choked.
Her Inglorious Basterds scene was referenced following Uma Thurman's bombshell interview in The New York Times and Quentin Tarantino's rebuttal of sorts in Deadline, which both dealt with Kill Bill scenes that saw the director choke and spit on his lead actor.
"In light of the recent allegations made by Uma Thurman against Harvey Weinstein and her terrifying work experience on Kill Bill, my name has been mentioned in numerous articles in regards to the choking scene in Inglourious Basterds,” Kruger wrote on Instagram.
"This is an important moment in time and my heart goes out to Uma and anyone who has ever been the victim of sexual assault and abuse. I stand with you."
She continued: "For the record however, I would like to say that my work experience with Quentin Tarantino was pure joy. He treated me with utter respect and never abused his power or forced me to do anything I wasn’t comfortable with."
The idea that Thurman harboured bad feeling about the Kill Bill choking was intimated by NYT writer Maureen Dowd, with Thurman following up in an Instagram post that her bone of contention with regards to Kill Bill was a car crash on set she was involved in. She has not challenged Tarantino's account of the spitting and choking scenes, which characterise them as uncomfortable but necessary, in his and Thurman's eyes, for the film.
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