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Emile Hirsch can say something that few in Hollywood can, and that is that he was fourth on a call sheet of a Quentin Tarantino movie, behind only Academy Award winner Leonardo DiCaprio, Academy Award winner Brad Pitt, and Academy Award nominee Margot Robbie.
Given that Tarantino is one of the greatest living American directors, getting word that he wants you to star in one of his movies is likely a landmark moment for any actor to appear in one of his films.
Unfortunately for Hirsch, however, that sense of career accomplishment was a bit delayed as Tarantino reached out to him of Facebook, leading him to believe he was being pranked.
“I just got a message on Facebook from Quentin,” Hirsch told BroBible’s Post Credit Podcast. “And I’m not even Facebook friends with Quentin! I don’t even use Facebook anymore! No offense, Facebook.”
“And it was like, ‘Message request from Quentin Tarantino.’ And I was like, ‘…What?!’ It wasn’t even his picture on the avatar. And he said something like, ‘I saw Autopsy of Jane Doe,’ and Quentin said ‘I really liked Jane Doe and I’m working on a project — there might be something for you in this.”
“At first, I’m looking at it like, ‘If this is some catfish 15-year-old in his Mom’s basement in Iowa, I’m going to get on a Greyhound bus and get this dude! Talk about pranking the s— out of an actor!”
As it turned out, of course, the message was actually from Tarantino, and after being kept in the dark about what his role would be — which led him to briefly wonder if Quentin wanted him to play Charles Manson — Hirsch eventually found out he had been cast as Sharon Tate’s hairdresser Jay Sebring.
You can check out our full interview with Emile Hirsch, which also touched on his role in the underrated 2006 film Alpha Dog, below. Hirsch’s new movie Walden was also released in select theaters back in late November. It will be available On Demand and Digital on Tuesday, December 12.