Quentin Tarantino originally fired Mélanie Laurent from INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS. She later called him to get her job back.
“Mélanie Laurent’s table read was terrible. It wasn’t good enough to be terrible. The most exciting day of preproduction is for me the table read. That is the closest I get to seeing the movie for the first time. Up until then, it’s just been me reading all the scenes to myself or to a friend … so a table read with the whole cast is so exciting and so important to me. Well, Mélanie was terrible, so I fired her.”
variety.com/2026/film/news…
“Mélanie Laurent’s table read was terrible. It wasn’t good enough to be terrible. The most exciting day of preproduction is for me the table read. That is the closest I get to seeing the movie for the first time. Up until then, it’s just been me reading all the scenes to myself or to a friend … so a table read with the whole cast is so exciting and so important to me. Well, Mélanie was terrible, so I fired her.”
variety.com/2026/film/news…
variety.com Tarantino Fired Mélanie Laurent From ‘Inglourious Basterds’ After ‘Terrible’ Table Read and Axed... Quentin Tarantino fired Melanie Laurent and Isabelle Huppert from "Inglourious Basterds" because of horrible table reads, but only Laurent came back. 
