Tarantino highlights Zoe Bell’s work at New Zealand premiere of latest film

U.S. Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino highlighted the work of New Zealand actress and stunt double Zoe Bell at the Auckland premiere of his latest feature film ‘The Hateful Eight,’ reported local media Thursday.

Bell, who has already worked with Tarantino in the 2007 film ‘Death Proof,’ is cast in the director’s eighth fulllength offering as ‘Six horse Judy,’ a name alluding to the character’s skill in driving a carriage pulled by six horses.

Before the screening on Wednesday, the noted filmmaker said Bell “is an amazing physical specimen” adding he has worked with her since the Kill Bill movies, in which the New Zealand actress performed as a double, according to Radio New Zealand.

Bell, in turn, confessed her role in Tarantino’s latest movie has been her toughest so far as she had to master driving a sixhorse stagecoach and for the first time she has felt unsure while filming.

But Tarantino reiterated he has always thought “Zoe could do anything. It’s been going on 12 years now and she hasn’t proved me wrong yet.”

The Hateful Eight, which recreates Tarantino’s trademark style of violence, is set a decade after the American Civil War, and features Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demian Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen and Bruce Dern in lead roles.