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Tarantino not difficult to work with - Waltz

Christoph Waltz didn't believe Tarantino rumours
Christoph Waltz didn't believe Tarantino rumours

Django Unchained star Christoph Waltz has said he didn't believe rumours about Quentin Tarantino being difficult to work.

The 56-year-old actor, who teamed up with the legendary director for a second time on Oscar-nominated movie Django Unchained, explained that he had no preconceptions about the award-winning director.

Speaking to The Huffington Post, Waltz said: ''I didn't have any preconceptions because I don't believe what I can read. I know it's media. For example, I don't read actors' interviews because I know what happens to actors' interviews - and there's no way in hell the interview would actually come across the same way it was being [written].

''I don't believe what you hear about Quentin being crazy and quirky. I want to see it for myself and sure enough, I saw something completely different and I liked what I saw infinitely better than what I could have read.''

Waltz, who recently won a Golden Globe for his role as bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained, further explained that he didn’t feel burdened with making the film entertaining, adding: ''With Quentin, it's his thing. The burden on me, or my job rather because it's not a burden, is to make what Quentin wrote happen [on screen].

"The writer writes and the actor acts. I didn't come up with that, I didn't create that, I didn't make that funny. He wrote it that way. I just tried to do it justice.''

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