Tarantino says he fired Mélanie Laurent from ‘Inglourious Basterds’ before rehiring her

According to Variety’s account of Jay Glennie’s making-of book, Tarantino fired Laurent over what he called a “terrible” table read, then rehired her after three days of rehearsal. Laurent said she’d been unwell; Tarantino praises her finished performance. He says Huppert missed the read amid contract delays. Her replacement, Maggie Cheung, had a different exit: Variety reports that all her scenes were cut.