History Trivia / InglouriousBasterds

** Tarantino himself choked Diane Kruger for real for the close-up shots of Bridget von Hammersmark's death to get a realistic reaction.

** Creator/MikeMyers plays another quintessential Brit, General Fenech, but is the Canadian-born son of English parents and holds Canadian, English and American citizenship.

** Creator/RodTaylor, who plays Prime Minister UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, is Australian.

** Eli Roth joked that the period clothing helped make him especially aggressive, saying "wearing wool underwear will make you want to kill anything". His girlfriend also added [[Music/MileyCyrus Hannah Montana]] music onto his [=iPod=] to {{Troll}} him, which helped get him angry enough.

* TheOtherMarty: Simon Pegg was cast as Lt. Archie Hicox but dropped out right before filming began due to scheduling conflicts with ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin''. Michael Fassbender then replaced him.

** Creator/AdamSandler, Creator/SimonPegg and Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio were considered for the respective parts of Donny Donowitz, Archie Hicox and Hans Landa. The role of Hicox was originally written with Tarantino favorite Creator/TimRoth in mind.

* FakeBrit: Creator/MichaelFassbender who plays Lt. Archie Hicox, the QuintessentialBritishGentleman, lives in London but is in fact half-Irish, half-German. Creator/MikeMyers plays another quintessential Brit, General Fenech, but is the Canadian-born son of English parents and holds Canadian, English and American citizenship. Creator/RodTaylor, who plays Prime Minister UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, is Australian.
* FakeNationality: The majority of the characters are played by actors of the same nationality as their roles, as a deliberate policy. Exceptions, as well as the FakeBrit examples above:

** Enzo G. Castellari, director of the namesake film ''Film/TheIngloriousBastards'', has a quasi-RemakeCameo as a German general.
** The Jewish-American soldier Omar is played by the Indian-American Omar Doom.

* TheCastShowoff:
** Christoph Waltz and Diane Kruger are both fluent in English and French in addition to their native German. Waltz speaks all three in the film, in addition to Italian. He speaks some Hebrew, too. Kruger speaks English and German alternately throughout the film.

* EnforcedMethodActing:
** Creator/QuentinTarantino decided that he wanted [[spoiler: Bridget von Hammersmark's]] death scene to be very realistic [[spoiler: so Tarantino put on a Nazi uniform, took Christoph Waltz's place, and choked Diane Kruger until she was unconscious.]]
** Eli Roth joked that the period clothing helped make him especially aggressive, saying "wearing wool underwear will make you want to kill anything". His girlfriend also added [[Music/MileyCyrus Hannah Montana]] music onto his [=iPod=] to {{Troll}} him, which helped get him angry enough.
* FakeBrit: Creator/MichaelFassbender who plays Lt. Archie Hicox, the QuintessentialBritishGentleman, lives in London but is in fact half-Irish, half-German. Creator/MikeMyers (Canadian) plays another quintessential Brit, General Fenech. And finally, Creator/RodTaylor, who plays Prime Minister UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, is Australian.

** Patrick Elias, who has a small role as Shoshanna's father (who is French), is Swiss.
** An unnamed German general in the cinema scene is played by an Italian actor.
** Tarantino's voice-only cameo is as a doubly-fictional American soldier in a German film, who was presumably played by a German actor in-universe.

* IronyAsSheIsCast:
** Creator/MichaelFassbender is half-German and fluent in the language, playing an English character who gets caught out for speaking German with an unusual accent.
** Diane Kruger was nearly turned down for the role because Tarantino didn't think she was actually German. She lampshaded the {{Irony}} of her spending years trying to lose her accent to play {{Fake American}}s, only to nearly miss out on a role of a German actress. She claims she had to exaggerate her accent to play Bridget.
* MethodActing: Melanie Laurent worked as a film projectionist for weeks to prepare for her role.

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: The "Inglourious Basterds" misspelling was likely to avoid a lawsuit by the copyright holders of the 1978 film "The Inglorious Bast'''a'''rds", which was also a World War II film. Though it might also be a reflection on Raine's illiteracy.
* StarMakingRole: This is the film that introduced Creator/MichaelFassbender, Creator/ChristophWaltz, Creator/MelanieLaurent, and Daniel Brühl to American audiences.

* WordOfGod: According to Creator/QuentinTarantino, Aldo Raine is actually the great grandfather of Floyd - Creator/BradPitt's character in ''Film/TrueRomance''.

* TheOtherMarty: Simon Pegg was cast as Lt. Archie Hicox but dropped out right before filming began due to scheduling conflicts with ''Film/TheAdventuresOfTintin''. Michael Fassbender then replaced him.

** Christoph Waltz is fluent in English and French in addition to his native German, and speaks all three in the film, in addition to Italian. He speaks some Hebrew too.
** Diane Kruger is also bilingual and speaks English and German alternately throughout the film.

* FakeBrit: Creator/MichaelFassbender who plays Lt. Archie Hicox, the QuintessentialBritishGentleman, lives in London but is in fact half-Irish, half-German. Creator/MikeMyers (Canadian) plays another quintessential Brit, General Fenech. And finally, Rod Taylor, who plays Prime Minister UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, is Australian.

** Cloris Leachman filmed a scene as an elderly Jewish woman living in Boston, who autographs Donny's baseball bat. Although the scene was cut, Quentin has said he might use it in the prequel.

** Cloris Leachman filmed a scene as en elderly Jewish woman living in Boston, who autographs Donny's baseball bat. Although the scene was cut, Quentin has said he might use it in the prequel.

** Patrick Elias who has a small role as Shoshanna's father (who is French) is Swiss.

* ActorAllusion:
** This isn't the first movie where Creator/BradPitt [[Film/FightClub fights in a basement]].
** Pitt also played a soldier who cut off German scalps in ''Film/LegendsOfTheFall'', though in World War I that time. Aldo Raine also mentions a past in bootlegging, something Brad Pitt's character in the former was also involved in.
** Creator/EliRoth gets to do some of the more gruesome killings in the film. Coincidence? And this isn't the first time he's played a "bear"--in [[Film/{{Grindhouse}} Death Proof]], his character was named "Dov," which means "bear" in Hebrew.
** Creator/MikeMyers doing a character with a faux-English accent who's involved with international espionage? [[Film/AustinPowers Yeah, baby.]]
* ActorInspiredElement: Shosanna's film for the Nazis was originally going to be in French. Melanie Laurent felt it would have more of an impact if it was in English, and it was changed as a result.

* FakeNationality:

** Also, at one point Music/EnnioMorricone was onboard to compose the score but backed out due to his belief that he would be unable to work efficiently in the amount of time given.

** Prior to coming out of retirement to star as Winston Churchill, Rod Taylor suggested Albert Finney for the part.

* AwesomeDearBoy: Til Schweiger had refused to wear Nazi uniforms in films before. He took the role of Hugo Stiglitz because he'd get to kill Nazis in the film.

* TheCameo:
** Creator/SamuelLJackson is the narrator of Hugo Stiglitz's background history.
** Italian Director [[Creator/EnzoGCastellari Enzo G. Castellari]] - who directed the original ''The Inglorious Bastards'' - [[http://inglouriousbasterds.wikia.com/wiki/Obergruppenf%C3%BChrer_(Enzo_G._Castellari) appears]] as a Nazi Obergruppenführer in the Premiere scene.
** Creator/HarveyKeitel provides the voice of the American officer negotiating on the radio with Raine and Landa.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/LeaSeydoux is one of [=LaPadite=]'s daughters.

* ActorInspiredElement: Shoshanna's film for the Nazis was originally going to be in French. Melanie Laurent felt it would have more of an impact if it was in English, and it was changed as a result.

* PlayingAgainstType: Samm Levine is better known for his nerdy NiceGuy roles in series like ''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'' and ''Series/{{Undeclared}}''

** In the screenplay, the first part of the film set in Paris was intended to have been filmed in black and white, using entirely natural lighting, in reference to the FrenchNewWave.

** Maggie Cheung was cast as Madame Mimieux, the original owner of Shoshanna's cinema. She too was cut from the finished film.
* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/EliRoth put on thirty pounds of muscle to play the Bear Jew.

* TheCastShowoff: Christoph Waltz is fluent in English and French in addition to his native German, and speaks all three in the film, in addition to Italian. Diane Kruger is also bilingual and speaks English and German alternately throughout the film.

* FakeBrit: Creator/MichaelFassbender who plays Lt. Archie Hicox, the QuintessentialBritishGentleman, lives in London but is in fact half-Irish, half-German. Creator/MikeMyers (Canadian) plays another quintessential Brit, General Fenech. And finally, Rod Taylor, who plays Prime Minister UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill, is Australian. Tarantino talked Rod Taylor out of retirement to play Churchill (which turned out to be his last role), even though Taylor suggested Creator/AlbertFinney (who had played Churchill to great acclaim in ''The Gathering Storm'' (2002)).
* FakeNationality: Christian Berkel, who plays a French bartender, is actually German.

* StarMakingRole: This is the film that introduced Creator/ChristophWaltz, Creator/MelanieLaurent, and Daniel Brühl to American audiences.

** Creator/AlbertFinney was originally supposed to play WinstonChurchill, a role he previously played in the telemovie ''The Gathering Storm''.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/LeaSeydoux is one of LaPadite's daughters.

** Creator/JeanReno was the original choice for Perrier LaPadite.

** Eli Roth joked that the period clothing helped make him especially aggressive, saying "wearing wool underwear will make you want to kill anything". His daughter also added [[Music/MileyCyrus Hannah Montana]] music onto his [=iPod=] to {{Troll}} him, which helped get him angry enough.