“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.
Wow, way to be a colossal asswipe there Quint.
The i is silent.
Doesn’t care for Matthew Lillard? Zoinks!
I can’t take it, the disrespect. I’m feeling a little woozy here
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.
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.
Immediately makes me wonder about Dano’s feet.
Bah! Worst feet in Hollywood!
