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Swagman

(1,934 posts)
Fri Aug 17, 2012, 11:07 AM Aug 2012

LaPaglia dumps Tarantino for Assange

AUSSIE actor Anthony LaPaglia has dumped heavyweight director Quentin Tarantino for an Australian TV movie.

LA-based LaPaglia, home to launch his new Australian film Mental, was to play a small part in Tarantino's upcoming film Django Unchained, which stars Jamie Foxx as a freed slave-turned-bounty hunter.

But when his one day of shooting with Tarantino was continually pushed back, threatening his commitment to local production Underground, about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, LaPaglia faced a "tough decision'

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/movies/lapaglia-prefers-assange-to-tarantino/story-e6frfmvr-1226452878597

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