Inglourious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds creator, Quentin Tarantino said he would work with Brad Pitt again "in a heartbeat.”

The 46-year-old director said: "Brad deserves more respect and I think he is getting it. He has become arguably the biggest male movie star in the world. It seems like his time. It is the best time to work with him."

Brad Pitt joked that he is running for political office, saying: "I'm running on the 'gay marriage, no religion, legalization and taxation of marijuana' platform."

Pitt's political aspirations came under the spotlight with his charity push to help rebuild New Orleans with affordable green houses.

He has become such a figure of pride for the city that a t-shirt declaring 'Brad Pitt for Mayor' has become a popular fashion statement.

For some actors, being cast in a leading role can be a long and difficult process.

Those actors aren't Brad Pitt.

This week at the Cannes Film Festival Pitt discussed how he got involved in Quentin Tarantino's new film, Inglourious Basterds, which is a revisionist film centering on World War II and Hitler.

Quentin Tarantino is returning to Cannes, the film festival where his second movie, a film that changed cinema forever, Pulp Fiction, won the prestigious Palme d’Or in 1994.

Quentin’s new movie, Inglourious Basterds, about a group of Jewish-American soldiers on a covert mission to brutally terrorize Nazis during the French occupation, will be competing against Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock, Looking for Eric, which was directed by Ken Loach, who won the Palme d’Or in 2006 for The Wind That Shook the Barley, and 17 other films.