5 actors and 1 film that Tarantino hates

In recent weeks, some speeches from Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood) had a negative impact on Hollywood and among moviegoers. In an appearance on a podcast, the director and screenwriter did not hide his hatred for Paul Dano (Black Blood), which caused other colleagues to come to the actor’s defense. But it’s not just the Paul Dano for whom Tarantino reserves his hatred, check out a list below with five actors and a film that the winner of the Palme d’Or for Pulp Fiction also hates:

1. Paul Dano

During the podcast Brett Easton Ellis, Tarantino praised Black Bloodranked 5th on its list of best films of the 21st century, but cited a “defect”. “Black Blood would have a good chance of being number 1 or 2 if it didn’t have a huge flaw… and the flaw is Paul Dano. Obviously the idea is for it to be a movie with two main characters, but it’s also drastically obvious that it’s not,” he said.

“(Dano) is weak, man. He’s the weakest part. Austin Butler would have been wonderful in this role. He’s such a weak, weak, uninteresting guy. The weakest actor in SAG (Hollywood Actors Guild).”

2. Matthew Lillard

During the same podcast, Tarantino put Matthew Lillard on your hate list. “I don’t like the Paul DanoI don’t like Owen Wilson (Marley and I, A Night at the Museum), and I don’t like the Matthew Lillard“, he specified. American actor and voice actor, Lillard became known for interpreting the Sausage of Scooby-Doo (2002) e This Macher em Panic (1996). In addition to these roles, Lillard won the award for Best Actor no Mar del Plata Festival (1998) by SLC Punk! and was appointed to the SAG Awards by the cast of The Descendants (2011).

3. Owen Wilson

The podcast episode paid off! In it, Tarantino also detonated the performance of Owen Wilson em Midnight in Parisof Woody Allenstating that “does not support” the actor. “I really can’t stand Owen Wilson. I really can’t stand it“, he stated. “The first time I saw Midnight in Paris, I spent time loving the film and hating it. The second time I thought, ‘Okay, don’t be so stupid, he’s not that bad.’ By the third time, I realized I was watching just to watch him.”

This is not the first time that Tarantino expresses dislike for Wilson. In 2021, the director had already praised the film Woody Allenbut reiterated that he didn’t find the actor funny: “Comedy actors, you either like them or you don’t. And he’s one of those that I just don’t like.”

4. George Clooney

Despite having worked together in A Drink in Hellnot even George Clooney escaped the poison of Tarantino. In an interview, Tarantino would have said that Clooney It wasn’t a “movie star” and challenged him to name a successful film of his since 2000.

Clooney He replied without hiding his irritation: “Quentin said some shit about me recently, so I’m a little annoyed with him”, he said. “He did some interview where he named movie stars and talked about Brad (Pitt) and someone else. Then the interviewer asked: ‘Well, what about the George?’ And he said, ‘He’s not a movie star.’ Then he literally said something like, ‘Name a movie from this millennium.’ And then I thought: ‘From this millennium? That’s kind of my whole f*cking career.’”

5. Chris Evans

Not even Captain America, played by Chris Evansmanaged to escape unscathed from the speeches of Tarantino. “Part of the Marvelization of Hollywood is that you have all these actors who became famous playing these characters, but they’re not movie stars. Captain America is the star”, said the filmmaker in an interview with mediaite.

In an interview with GQ, Chris Evans he replied without seeming to care about the “poke”: “Quentin Tarantino said this recently and I thought, you know, he’s right. The character is the star“.He felt that Marvel provided financial security and allowed him to not always have to be in the spotlight, an advantage of the studio model.”That was the beauty of working on the Marvel movies. You never had to be front and center”, these Evans.

6. The Hunger Games

Second Quentin Tarantinothe franchise Hunger Gamescreated by Suzanne Collinsis nothing more than intellectual theft. In an interview with The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast (via The Hollywood Reporter), the American filmmaker accused Collins to copy Battle Royalea book released in 1999 in Japan that was adapted into a film the following year. The reason for this copy to go unnoticed, in Tarantino’s opinion, is the ignorance of Western critics regarding Asian literature.

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