For his part, Tarantino previously told Deadline that he had explained his method to Kruger in detail and that she gave him permission to choke her for the scene.
“When I did Inglourious Basterds, and I went to Diane and I said, ‘Look, I’ve got to strangle you. If it’s just a guy with his hands on your neck, not putting any kind of pressure and you’re just doing this wiggling death rattle, it looks like a normal movie strangulation,” he recalled in a 2018 interview. “What I would like to do — with your permission — is just…commit to choking you, with my hands, in a close-up. We do it for 30 seconds or so, and then I stop. If we need to do it a second time, we will. After that, that’s it. Are you down to committing to it so we can get a really good look?”
Tarantino added, “We did our two times, and…Diane said, Okay, if you need to do it once more, you can.”
