Actually, comedy director Judd Apatow and his colleague Quentin Tarantino should be in the podcast separately.”by Bill Maher. But the cult director of “Pulp Fiction” decided to show up for a three-way talk without further ado instead of waiting in the next room for his performance. After all, the two filmmakers know each other well. How they got to know each other was an instant topic of conversation.
That came about through a mutual friend: Adam Sandler. After Tarantino played a supporting role in Sandler’s Little Nicky: Satan Junior, he hung out with the star and his circle of friends. And Sandler’s closest circle included Judd Apatow. He even shared a flat with Sandler for a while, later working this time together in “Funny People” aka “How Life Plays”. But it was precisely this film that prevented a collaboration between Tarantino and Sandler that fans often dream of.
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While Tarantino talks about the shared experiences in the early 2000s in the podcast, Apatow suddenly brings it up in the podcast. He hates having “Funny People” a Sandler performance in “inglorious bastards‘ prevented.
Tarantino wrote Bear Jew especially for Adam Sandler
“Yes, I wrote Bear Jew for Adam Sandler,” Tarantino explains. In 2000, on the set of the aforementioned “Little Nicky,” he spoke to Sandler about the role, who was ecstatic about beating Nazis with a baseball bat.
Sandler was so excited about the first script that he’s already told everyone he knows that he’ll soon be playing this guy who beats up Nazis with a baseball bat.
But as is known, it took years before “Inglourious Basterds” could finally be realized. Filming did not start until the fall of 2008. When Tarantino knocked on Sandler’s door again, he had to cancel. For the same period, he had already committed to Apatow for “Funny People” for more than a year.
“Funny people” became a bigger problem for Tarantino – but he’s not mad
Like Tarantino on the podcast”“, the search for a replacement and the casting for “Inglourious Basterds” in general was a problem because of “Funny People”: “Judd had already grabbed all the good Jewish stars. Set Rogen and all the good Jewish actors have been on Funny People. I kill Hitler with baseball bats and there just aren’t any good Jewish stars available. David Krumholtz and no one else. All the good Jewish stars were already in service. I do the Jewish male fantasy.”
Quentin Tarantino, who went on to cast the Bear Jew with fellow director Eli Roth, isn’t gutted about it. After all, Adam Sandler just had to do Funny People because of the history he shared with Apatow: “I mean, the whole movie started with a fucking videotape of you guys as kids.”
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We’re sure that Adam Sandler would have been a big boar jew – but “Inglourious Basterds” turned out to be a really good movie anyway – as, in the opinion of the author of these lines, the “Funny People – How life goes”. And who knows: maybe there will be a collaboration between Sandler and Tarantino in the future. But there is not much time left, at least for the cinema. Because Tarantino, who is currently working on a western series, ultimately only wants to direct one film.