Diane Kruger claims Quentin Tarantino 'didn't want her to audition' for ...

Diane Kruger has revealed Quentin Tarantino initially refused to give her an audition for the war film Inglorious Basterds, which he directed in 2009.

The actress, 45, claimed the filmmaker, 58, held a grudge against her after not being impressed with a previous performance, but eventually gave in.

Although she ultimately won a SAG award for her portrayal of Bridget Von Hammersmark, she was forced to fly to Germany beforehand in order to prove her worth.

She told the Reign With Josh Smith podcast: 'He didn't want to audition me because he saw a movie that I was in that he didn't like.

'So he didn't believe in me from the get-go. And literally the only reason he auditioned me is because there was no one left to audition.

'I had to pay for my own flight from New York to go to Germany because he wouldn't - even though obviously he's American - see me in the US.

'So I had to jump through all these hoops that definitely put my nose at a joint, but I was like, "You know what, f**k him."

'I'm just gonna do that and prove to him that I could do it and thankfully it all worked out, but sometimes it just seems unfair and you've gotta change the narrative.'

Admitting she too sometimes underestimates those in the industry, she hinted that there were no heard feelings since it would have acted as 'a lesson'. 

Diane concluded: 'I think that for him that must have been a lesson, sometimes I'm sure I'm guilty of that too, you put people in boxes, you know you think they're gonna be one way and then they're not at all.'

The film - inspired by 1978 Italian war movie The Inglorious Bast*rds - follows a band of Jewish-American soldiers dropped into France to get revenge on the Nazi occupiers.