In his latest appearance on Bill Mahers Club Random, The Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino confirmed a long-standing rumour about Adam Sandler and Inglourious Basterds. With the help of Maher and the co-interviewee Judd Apatow, Tarantino went on record saying he wrote for Sandler the role of the Sergeant Donny The Bear Jew Donowitz, reports Variety.
Apatow already allowed Sandler to film Funny People, which means that Tarantinos Sandler dream hardly became real. As a kid, Adam Sandler met the boy to make the boy do their little thing. Tarantino said that he was talking about his cameo in the series “Sondlers 2000”.
Tarantino listens to Bill Mahers podcast.
It’s really like having been hanging out with that crew for a little while. We’re going to a lot of different things together. However, Freaks and Geeks had just gone out or was on its way and I missed it, but the entire Happy Madison crowd was so crazy.
I feel sorry, because when I went to funny people to discuss this with Sandler, I was unaware that he was exactly the time you were trying to use him in The Inglorious Basterds, which Apatow said out. Tarantino replied that obviously he should have done yours because of all the things that were in line. You start with a video cassette that you play as a child. But yeah, I wrote the Bear Jew for Adam Sandler.
When I was doing Little Nicky, he told me like: Oh man, I get to go beat up Nazis by an attack? Poop! You are beautiful! Waiting? I can’t wait. He was like telling every Jewish guy, I would fuck this guy who beat up Nazis with a fucking bat.
Tarantino and Apatow were looking for the same time to film their film, and Apatow already got Sandler to agree to star in Funny People in a month and a half before the start of the production. Sandler couldn’t play an inglourious Basterd, but finding a replacement wasn’t as easy for Tarantino.
Now the problem is all. [Judd] rebushed all the good Jews (for a funny people), said Tarantino. That was the problem. Seth Rogen and all the good Jews did funny people. I kill Hitler in baseball bats, and there are no good Jews available! David Krumholtz, nothing! All the good Jews were wrapped up! I do a Jewish male fantasy!
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