Death Proof

…B-movie double features, paired Tarantino’s Death Proof, a thriller about a homicidal stuntman, with Robert Rodriguez’s horror film Planet Terror. Tarantino’s next three films took an irreverent approach to history. Inglourious Basterds (2009), set during World War II, follows a group of Jewish American soldiers trained to kill Nazis in…

…was cast in Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof (2007), playing a murderous stunt driver. He reunited with Tarantino on The Hateful Eight (2015) and then appeared in the action drama Deepwater Horizon (2016), about the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. During this time he was also cast in…

…(Planet Terror) and Tarantino (Death Proof); I’m Not There (2007), an unconventional biopic of Bob Dylan; and The Great Debaters (2007), a drama—directed by and starring Denzel Washington—about an underdog debate team from an African American college that competed against Harvard for the 1935 national championship.