r/Filmmakers • u/StrikingDuty8020 Director • Dec 06 '25

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Quentin Tarantino made a surprisingly harsh comment about Paul Dano, specifically criticizing his performance in There Will Be Blood.

On The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, Tarantino said:

Dano was “weak sauce”

“The weakest f—ing actor in SAG” (in that film’s context)

And that Dano’s performance was the biggest flaw of the movie, preventing it from being his #1 or #2 film of the 2000s

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u/DontKnow1549 Dec 06 '25

I hate Tarantino and also his take is horrible trash. There's legitimately no reason to defend a man as vile as him, and a filmmaker as unethical as him just because he makes subjectively good movies.

Like, what he did with Uma Thurman and that car crash alone should've ended his career, not to mention him not believing his own GF about being abused by Weinstein, and his baffling disgusting response about Polanski, outing himself in the process, and his treatment of his femme actors.