“There Will Be Blood would stand a better chance to be in number 1 or number 2 if it didn’t have a big giant flaw in it, and the flaw is Paul Dano,” he said on the most recent episode of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, noting that he doesn’t think the actor could keep up with Daniel Day-Lewis’ Oscar-winning performance. “Obviously, it’s supposed to be a two-hander, and it’s also so drastically obvious that it’s not a two-hander.”
Tarantino continued to insult Dano’s abilities. “He is weak sauce, man. He’s a weak sister,” he said.
“So you put him with the weakest male actor in SAG?” Tarantino responded. “The limpest dick in the world?”
The filmmaker later clarified, “I’m not saying he’s giving a terrible performance. I’m saying he’s giving a non-entity performance.”
Ellis then asked if Tarantino had ever enjoyed Dano in any project. “I don’t care for him,” the filmmaker responded. “I don’t care for him, I don’t care for Owen Wilson, and I don’t care for Matthew Lillard.”
Breaking news: Tarantino still an unpleasant, unhappy human being.
For someone who so obviously gets the big truck = little dick trope in his movies, he sure is incapable of introspecting and realizing he’s doing the same thing.
Maybe he does the big truck little dick trope unironically.
Fuck him for bad mouthing Matthew Lillard. That man is a gem and has fucking range.
I love Mathew Lillard. His performance in scream is hilarious.
Wow, way to be a colossal asswipe there Quint.
The i is silent.
I absolutely loved Paul Dano’s performance. His exorcism single take was incredible.
Doesn’t care for Matthew Lillard? Zoinks!
I can’t take it, the disrespect. I’m feeling a little woozy here
His final movie should be interesting now that he’s shifting from ultra-cool to bitter old man.
I kinda hope it’s a terrible movie and everybody hates it. Then he’ll feel like he needs to keep making more to make up for it.
PTA doesn’t suffer fools. Oscars are coming up and OBAA is definitely getting a nod. If asked about this, he’ll go to bat hard for Dano.
I can’t wait 😂 I love it when other directors call Quentin out on his BS.
And I hope Dano knows he’s a fan favorite and will always be. There’s a reason the likes of Spielberg and PTA chose to cast him, and in every cinephile’s book they’re better directors than Quentin.
Immediately makes me wonder about Dano’s feet.
Bah! Worst feet in Hollywood!
I’m surprised Tarantino didn’t find a way to shoehorn using the n-word
Tarantino is mad that something isn’t a stupidly over the top parody of itself dreamt up by a 7 year old boy whose entire ethos is to imitate his troubled older brother. What a surprise. Go back to making your pretentious overrated last movie so you can go away forever. Reeeeee
Why does Bret Easton Ellis have a podcast. It somehow seems incongruous with the person who wrote American Psycho (or else very congruous, I guess)
I don’t know. But I am a little curious. The movie is one of my all time favorites. I’m not familiar with anything else he’s done.
The film is pretty far from the novel, even. It keeps the themes, but none of the transgressive delivery that is itself a message in that genre. So you might be in for a surprise if you ever decide to check out the source material.
