Pitt, who has a laid-back sense of humour about all this, explained how he got the role: Tarantino came to visit him in the fall, and they sat around all night talking about movies. "I got up the next morning and saw five empty wine bottles on the floor and something that looks like (a) smoking apparatus, and apparently I agreed to do the movie. Six weeks later, I was in uniform and I was Lt. Aldo Raine."