![]() ![]() With its great supporting cast, the character Mikaal Tomas stuck out to me. Why is someone financing this?” tweeted Judd Apatow.Several months ago, I brought myself to read through James Robinson’s brilliant Starman series. “Now Tarantino is going to make a movie about Polanski. The fact that Manson’s followers murdered Polanski’s then wife, Sharon Tate, presents an added complication given Tarantino’s comments about the director. Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise and Margot Robbie have been tipped to star. Sony Pictures will face an acute dilemma if the controversy escalates since it has bought worldwide rights to Tarantino’s next film – a reported $100m production about the Charles Manson family murders in Los Angeles in 1969. He treated me with utter respect and never abused his power or forced me to do anything I wasn’t comfortable with.” Kruger, who played the strangled character in the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, defended the director in an Instagram post: “I would like to say that my work experience with Quentin Tarantino was pure joy. Two members of a Hollywood film awards institution said the director would probably survive since he had not been accused of sexual harassment. I Will Honor Them.”ĭespite social media outrage over the Polanski comments, and predictions that Tarantino’s time in Hollywood might be finished, it was unclear whether his career would suffer lasting damage. “American Slavery Was Not A Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western,” he tweeted. ![]() Later, the director also criticised Tarantino’s slavery thriller Django Unchained. Others recalled the controversy over Tarantino’s use of racial epithets, especially the word “nigger”, in his films, which has earned rebuke from Spike Lee. “He told me about it loudly, over and over, for years in front of numerous people.” His image took a separate hit last week when Rose McGowan’s memoir Brave alleged that he brayed in public about fetishising her feet. The story, however, prompted renewed scrutiny of the Reservoir Dogs director, leading to excavation of the 2003 radio interview. Rose McGowan and Quentin Tarantino in 2007. And it wasn’t … she got into it because she trusted me.” He said he recently gave Thurman footage of the accident to help give her closure. He told Deadline he was wrong to ask her to drive. Thurman’s revelations last weekend about the Kill Bill car crash – she called it “dehumanisation to the point of death” – prompted more contrition from Tarantino. Tarantino confessed he could and should have done more to stop Weinstein’s alleged predations – “I knew enough to do more than I did” – but seemed to dodge the #MeToo hurricane sweeping Hollywood. Tarantino, 54, conquered Hollywood through a close, long-term alliance with the producer Harvey Weinstein, who tumbled into disgrace last October amid multiple allegations of sexual assault. I think people are really disgusted,” she told the Guardian. Melissa Silverstein, founder and publisher of Women in Hollywood, a gender equality initiative and film news site, denounced Tarantino’s comments about Polanski, saying it signalled a watershed moment for the director that could have lasting impact on his career. This business sucks and enables predators.” that I fucking showed up in SHORT SHORTS AND FLIP FLOPS as requested because I WANTED THE JOB. “I’m embarrassed that I ever auditioned for him. The actor Busy Philipps tweeted her regret at seeking a role in one of his films. It also emerged that Tarantino personally performed some violent actions in his films, including spitting on Thurman’s face and choking her with a chain in Kill Bill and strangling Diana Kruger in a scene in Inglourious Basterds. To me, when you use the word rape, you’re talking about violent, throwing them down – it’s like one of the most violent crimes in the world … she wanted to have ! Dated the guy!” “He had sex with a minor,” Tarantino said in the recording. Tarantino apologised on Monday for putting Thurman in harm’s way during the filming of Kill Bill, calling it “the biggest regret of my life”, but by Tuesday he was facing a growing outcry over other perceived offences.Īudio emerged of him defending fellow director Roman Polanski’s sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl in 1977, saying she was “down with it” and that rape was a “buzzword” that didn’t apply to the situation.Ī clip and transcript of the comments in a 2003 radio interview with Howard Stern surfaced and ricocheted around the internet on Tuesday. ![]()
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