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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Quentin Tarantino

It isn't long 'til Quentin Tarantino's seventh movie Django Unchained hits theatres, and going by the early reactions it's looking to be a doozy. After he's brought us defining works in the gangster, blaxploitation, samurai, war and slasher genres, we're practically giddy to see just what Tarantino has done with the spaghetti western. So whilst we wait for Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz to don their cowboy hits and ride out to meet Leonard DiCaprio, we've put together a list of 10 things you probably didn't know about Quentin Jerome Tarantino to help pass the time. We won't count his middle name - "Jerome" - as one.

5. Tarantino freakin’ adores rockabilly music

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There’s good reason why True Romance‘s Clarence is such a huge Elvis Presley fan – so much so that the character admits he’d like to screw the world’s most famous musician in the film’s first five minutes, apparently channelling the deep dark desires of his creator. “About eighteen-years-old, I got waaaay into rockabilly music,” Tarantino once revealed during an interview. “I just fancied myself. I was like the second coming of Elvis Presley. I dyed my hair black.”

Tarantino even played an Elvis impersonator in an episode of The Golden Girls after writing on his resume that he was a natural. Don’t worry – it isn’t true at all.