‘Inglourious’ Actor Tastes the Glory

[lsanderson]

By DENNIS LIM
Published: August 12, 2009

AT the Cannes Film Festival in May, when the Austrian actor Christoph Waltz stepped up to the podium to accept his best-actor prize for playing an SS colonel in “Inglourious Basterds,” he cut through the usual bluster of the ceremony with a direct and touching declaration. His voice choked with emotion, Mr. Waltz addressed his director, Quentin Tarantino. “You gave me my vocation back,” he said. More