If we want good movies, Quentin Tarantino It remains an inevitable reference. If we are looking for movie recommendations too. If what matters to us are accurate opinions expressed respectfully, not so much: Manager Pulp Fiction He just reminded us of attacking an actor who (allegedly) ruined one of his favorite movies so far this century.
On the writer’s podcast Bret Easton Ellis (via Entertainment Weekly), Tarantino was happy to talk about it wells of ambition, The movie he signed Paul Thomas Anderson In 2007, he considers him the fifth best player of the 21st century. He asserts that he would be the first if it were not for the work of the translator he considers “Lazy and sissy.”
“A man of no interest”
“Wells of ambition I would have a better chance of being first or second if I didn’t have a major flaw, which this one is Paul Dano Tarantino notes. In his opinion, the actor was not able to live up to it daniel day lewis, Protagonist: “It’s obvious that it should be a duel, and it’s also obvious that it’s not.”
As if this was not enough, the director continues to deal with his translator, who hates the preacher Eli Sunday. “He’s lazy, man. He’s a sissy,” he said, then mentioned that “another good actor” could have nailed the role. What’s more, he has his own filter: Austin Butler (Who he worked with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) He would have been great in this role. “(Dano) is a lazy, lazy, uninteresting guy.”
Later, Bret Easton Ellis tries to contain Tarantine’s anger by pointing out that a performance like Day-Lewis’ (who won his second Academy Award for his role as an unscrupulous oilman) overwhelms anyone. However, the director does not hold back: when the writer asks him if Paul Dano seems to him “the weakest actor in the union,” he ups the ante by calling him one. “The weakest dick in the world.”
In this way, Tarantino once again displays the Versailles manners that made him so beloved on the festival circuit. Forgetting, when passing, Huge challenge Who was confronted by Paul Dano Wells of ambition.
Dano was set to play a much shorter role, and became co-star when Kel O’Neill He abandoned filming, had only four days to prepare, and faced the challenge of facing off against a strong actor like Day-Lewis. With that in mind, anyone could say that his work on the film was beyond amazing… except Tarantino, of course.