Quentin Tarantino has revealed that he fired actresses Mélanie Laurent and Isabelle Huppert from “Inglourious Basterds” before production on the 2009 war film even began.

The filmmaker, 63, discussed the casting decisions in Jay Glennie’s new book, “The Making of Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Inglourious Basterds,’” released on Tuesday.

In the book, Tarantino explained that he fired Laurent, 43, because her table read was “terrible,” adding, “It wasn’t good enough to be terrible,” according to People.

He went on to describe the table read as the “most exciting day of pre-production” for him, noting that it is “the closest I get to seeing the movie for the first time.”

“Up until then, it’s just been me reading all the scenes to myself or to a friend,” he continued, “so a table read with the whole cast is so exciting and so important to me.”

Laurent was ultimately rehired, explaining to Tarantino that she had been sick at the time of the table read and saying, “I will fly myself to Germany and put myself up in a hotel. I know you’re busy, but I will wait until you see me again.”

The French actress managed to convince Tarantino to “turn the clock back” and “return to square one,” agreeing to rehearse with him for three days before she was given back her role as Shosanna Dreyfus.

“Let me just go on the record for everybody to know: I love Mélanie,” Tarantino said in the book. “The fact of the matter is, if we were not talking about the making of ‘Inglourious Basterds,’ I would never think about the table read again, for the simple reason Mélanie is my Shosanna. She did a wonderful job.”

Huppert, for her part, was dropped from the film because she “didn’t show up” for the table read in the first place and was replaced by Maggie Cheung, Tarantino revealed.

“So f–k it, I fired her. I mean, I love Isabelle Huppert — ‘Heaven’s Gate’ and all that,” Tarantino said, “but there were issues with her contract. It just kept stalling. And then not coming to the table read …”

The director went on to explain that this “invariably happens,” adding, “As far as I’m concerned, if you’re cast and you are not at that table, I don’t owe you jack s–t! You can be fired, especially if I get excited by what somebody else did in your absence.”

As for Cheung, her scenes as Madame Ada Mimieux were ultimately cut from the movie, although Tarantino described her as “fantastic.”

“Inglourious Basterds” went on to receive eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director.

The film starred Brad Pitt as Lt. Aldo Raine and Christoph Waltz as Col. Hans Landa, with Waltz winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his performance.

Tarantino has never been one to shy away from making his feelings known to the actors he works with.

In May, Bruce Dern, who starred alongside Pitt, 62, in Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood,” recalled an incident on set in which the director allegedly warned Pitt that he would be “dead in this business” if he ever stopped the camera again.

According to Dern, 90, Pitt had called cut after Dern improvised a line during a scene, prompting Tarantino to tell him, “Never again in your life will you ever cut a camera or you’ll be dead in this business. That’s my domain.”