. >> rasputin, i am. ion't want to say -- tavis: i mean -- >> they seem dead. tavis: you did this for travolta and pam grier, reintroducing them. what is your casti process? you have to make sure they can do this. why brad pitt? >> this is different, because it was in my mind a long time. the main characters -- tavis: how long is this? >> about 10 years ago. many b characters, aldo raine and shoshanna have been bumping around for 10 years. nobody was attached to them. so they really became the character. the way a novelist would write them. i was not held back by limitations. even the head nazi guy, l. landa. he speaks so many languages is because he could. now i have to find somebody. with brad, halfway through the script i started to think, who could play him? when i came up with brad, i couldn't think of anybody el. second choice is not the next guy on the list. warren beatty is not bill, in "kill bill," that is david carradine. brad seemed like he could fit this well anything else would be more of an artistic interpretation. tavis: why did you think he coul

rasputin, the article was fascinating. it talked about the fact tha he made it with so many women but that he also stank. he smelled from body odor, and the idea of this whole nation waiting in line to be rejected by him through the smell alone. but each one of these offered something. >> queen victoria? >> that was an article on slapng and kicking people a bang on the backside. >> i think it had something to do with treatment, physical treatment of prisoners, something like that. i mean, you know, i go back to that may have been done 20 or 30 years ago so i don't remember all the reasons behind each one of them. >> woody allen? >> what he presented a problem because he was a character, self-made caricature, and then along came somebody and looked like he was taking advantage of this for himself, like me, and then he felt that he had to say something negative so he said you didn't get my hair, and that's where we are. you didn't get my hair. what can you say to somebody who said that? yes, i got it over the year. a very fe