Tarantino explores the idea that an actor could make a great spy with Bridget von Hammersmark, the fashionable German movie star whose plot to assassinate Hitler would give James Bond a hard-on. Played to perfection by the underrated Diane Kruger, Bridget von Hammersmark is an antique goddess who has a killer smile and a tiny gun just in case.

Impossibly glamorous with charm to spare, German film star Bridget is actually on the side of the good guys. A double agent working with British intelligence and the Basterds, von Hammersmark escapes with her life from the bloodbath at the La Louisianne tavern, but later dies at the hands of Hans Landa