Maggie Cheung is not a Basterd

cheungSad news for all you Maggie Cheung admirers out there. As China Daily reports, her parts in Inglourious Basterds have been cut from the final film for length reasons. Apparently Maggie was okay with it, yet us fans are truly shocked of course. At least that will be something to look forward to on a DVD at some point maybe. She said “[QT] called me from Cannes to explain that my scenes had to be cut to ensure the film’s length. I really thought it was no big deal.” well what a sport she is. Cheung was supposed to play Madame Mimieux, the actual owner of the cinemateque that serves as the stage for a fireworks of revenge…

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Sebastian

Sebastian is the founder and owner of the Tarantino Archives and has been a fan and observer of QT for over two decades now, cherishing his work and the window in the the wider world of cinema his movies have opened up. Inspired as such, he runs the Spaghetti Western Database (SWDb), the Grindhouse Cinema Database (GCDb), Furious Cinema, its German sister Nischenkino and The Robert Rodriguez Archives. He lives in Berlin.

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