Paul Dano finally addresses Quentin Tarantino's controversial remarks about his casting in 'There Will Be Blood' and the ensuing groundswell of support from his peers.
After Paul Dano came under unexpected fire from filmmaker Quentin Tarantino in December, the 'There Will Be Blood' star received support from fellow artists including Daniel Day-Lewis and Ben Stiller. A month after the drama, he is now returning the love.
Dano finally publicly addressed Tarantino's controversial comments at the Sundance Film Festival during a 20th anniversary screening of 'Little Miss Sunshine.' Speaking to Variety, he said the groundswell of support 'was really nice.' Tarantino appeared on Bret Easton Ellis' podcast in December to rank his top 10 films of the century. The 'Django Unchained' and 'Pulp Fiction' filmmaker placed Paul Thomas Anderson's oil drama 'There Will Be Blood' at No. 5 on his list, and said specifically Dano — not his performance — was the 'big, giant flaw' in the Oscar-winning film. 'There Will Be Blood' stars Dano as fiery preacher Eli Sunday and Day-Lewis as oil tycoon Daniel Plainview. When the movie was released in 2007, former Times film critic Kenneth Turan praised Dano as 'smoothly effective' and gifted. Clearly, Tarantino thought otherwise. 'He is weak sauce, man. He's a weak sister,' Tarantino said, adding that he thought 'Elvis' star Austin Butler would have been a better actor for the part. 'He’s just such a weak, weak, uninteresting guy,' he said. Tarantino added: 'You put with the the weakest f— actor in SAG?' A handful of Dano's collaborators immediately defended him. 'Escape at Dannemora' executive producer Stiller praised him as 'brilliant' and Reese Witherspoon called her 'Inherent Vice' co-star an 'incredibly gifted, versatile actor' and a gentleman. Matt Reeves, Josh Gad, Alec Baldwin and Simu Liu also voiced their support for Dano, whose credits include Steven Speilberg's Oscar-nominated 'The Fabelmans,' Bong Joon Ho's 'Okja' and Oscar-winning director duo Daniels' 'Swiss Army Man.' 'I was also incredibly grateful that the world spoke up for me so I didn’t have to,' Dano said at the Sundance screening. Before Dano responded, though, Toni Collette chimed in, dismissing 'that guy' Tarantino and speculating that 'he must've been high.' 'It was just confusing. Who does that?,' she said, according to Variety. 'Little Miss Sunshine' directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris also criticized Tarantino and praised their star. During his podcast appearance in December, Tarantino also slammed Owen Wilson and scream king Matthew Lillard. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly published Wednesday, Lillard brushed off the shade and recalled the ensuing social media praise for his talents. 'It was like living through your own wake,' Lillard told EW. 'All those R.I.P. emails or tweets and Instagram posts and TikToks, all of the things we see after somebody passes are so sweet,' he added. 'And the reality is I just got to live through all of it firsthand — alive and kicking! I can't imagine a more lovely reaction to what happened.'
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