Known as Shaggy in “Scooby-Doo” and Stu Macher in “Scream,” Matthew Lillard was one of the most recent “victims” of Quentin Tarantino’s vicious tongue. During a panel at GalaxyCon in Columbus, Ohio, the actor commented on the Pulp Fiction director’s speech, who, during a recent appearance on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, simply said, “I don’t like Matthew Lillard.”
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“Who cares? Who cares,” he said, booing Tarantino.
But soon after, he admitted that the filmmaker’s frankness was affecting his ego.
“It hurts. It sucks. You wouldn’t say that to Tom Cruise. They wouldn’t talk like that about A-list actors in Hollywood.”
For Lillard, who has starred in major box office hits, there is a gap between fan admiration and industry judgment. “I’m very popular in this room. I’m not very popular in Hollywood,” he said. “They are two completely different microcosms. It humiliates us. And it hurts.”
Lillard wasn’t Tarantini’s only target. In the same episode of the podcast, the director criticized Paul Dano’s work in “Sangue Negro”. For Tarantino, the film should be “a duel of interpretations”, but Dano would not be up to his partner Daniel Day-Lewis. “He’s weak. Daniel swallows him alive. Austin Butler would have been wonderful in this role.”
The director was even more blunt, calling the actor’s work “weak, uninteresting” and saying the film ended up with “the weakest actor in SAG,” in a review that quickly went viral.
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