Paul Dano has shared his first public response to Quentin Tarantino’s disparaging comments from again in December.
The director beforehand known as the actor “a giant, large flaw” in There Can be Blood, including that he’s “such a weak, weak, uninteresting man. The weakest fucking actor in SAG.” At a Sundance twentieth anniversary screening of Little Miss Sunshine, Dano was requested about these remarks and stated that the general public outpouring of help touched him. “That was very nice,” he instructed Variety. “I used to be additionally extremely grateful that the world spoke up for me so I didn’t need to.”
Whereas Dano’s magnanimity spared any phrases for Tarantino himself, his co-workers had been extra direct. His Little Miss Sunshine co-star Toni Collette spoke up earlier than Dano may even reply, saying, “Are we actually going there? Fuck that man! He should’ve been excessive… It was simply complicated. Who does that?”
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Little Miss Sunshine co-director Jonathan Dayton additionally chimed in, saying Tarantino’s remarks had been an “embarrassment. “I can solely suppose that his rawness of his efficiency made Tarantino uncomfortable. He couldn’t be simply filed,” Dayton stated.
Tarantino’s diss got here throughout an look on Bret Easton Ellis’s podcast, the place he additionally took pictures at Matthew Lillard and Owen Wilson. Tarantino stated he “actually [doesn’t] take care of Matthew Lillard,” a comment Lillard previously said “hurts your emotions.” In a brand new interview with Entertainment Weekly, nevertheless, he echoed Dano’s personal feedback concerning the expertise of being slammed by certainly one of Hollywood’s largest administrators. “It was like residing by means of your personal wake,” Lillard stated of the general public standing as much as defend him and his fellow actors. “All these R.I.P. emails or tweets and Instagram posts and TikToks, all the issues we see after any individual passes are so candy. And the fact is I simply obtained to stay by means of all of it firsthand — alive and kicking! I can’t think about a extra pretty response to what occurred.”
He added, “No person has to love me. No person has to love any actor on the market, clearly. It’s private choice. I’m not everybody’s first alternative, that’s apparent, however to then have that sort of response was lovely.”
Different large Hollywood names additionally got here to the protection of Dano, Lillard, and Wilson. Whereas accepting an AARP prize earlier this 12 months, George Clooney said he “could be honored to work with” any of the names Tarantino so indelicately dropped.
