Brad Pitt has revealed how a drunken night out on the tiles with Quentin Tarantino sealed his involvement in the director’s latest offering Inglourious Basterds.

The movie debuted at the Cannes Film Festival this week and it was during festivities for the movie’s first showing that Brad revealed how he’d accepted the part after a raucous night out with the director.

Brad says, "We went out together... I got up the next morning and saw, like, five empty bottles on the floor and some sort of smoking device on the floor. Then, somehow, six weeks later I was doing the film."

In the movie, Brad plays a US army lieutenant who is leading a band of Jewish-American soldiers in the fight against the Nazis in World War II.

The 45-year-old actor also admits he was initially unsure about signing to the film, but was convinced when he heard more about it.

He said: "As I get older, it's about the company you keep because you're away from your family.

"This was something new for me. I wish all films could be made this way. It's definitely outrageous, which I was game for!"

We know Brad is just punting a movie but his happy talk of wild nights out and outrageous antics onset aren’t going to be smoothing over any of his troubled waters with Ange…

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