(NCS) — One would assume that with all of the criticism round Quentin Tarantino and a few of his selections, he’d be the final particular person to slam another person within the business.
And one could be mistaken.
The director lately let unfastened about his lack of affection for the work of actor Paul Dano.
During an appearance on “The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast,” Tarantino talked about that Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 movie, “There Will Be Blood,” was his fifth-favorite film of the twenty first century. But, he mentioned, he would have listed it first or second have been it not for “a big giant flaw in it, and the flaw is Paul Dano.”
Turns out that the acclaimed director didn’t assume that Dano, who performed two roles within the film as an identical twins Eli and Paul Sunday, was up to sharing the display with costar Daniel Day-Lewis.
For those that discover this to be wild commentary coming from a person who could not have gotten a lot display time have been he not ready to solid himself in his personal tasks, Tarantino doubled down.
“He is weak sauce, man,” Tarantino mentioned. “He’s a weak sister.”
So who may have accomplished it higher?
“Austin Butler would have been wonderful in that role,” Tarantino mentioned, including that Dano is “just such a weak, weak, uninteresting guy.”
For the report, Butler was 16 years previous again then, so there’s that.
Anderson may desire a phrase with Tarantino on condition that he not solely solid Dano as Paul Sunday, however really rewrote the film to make that character and Eli Sunday an identical twins to have Dano play each roles.
The character of Paul was a minor function and the one wherein Dano had initially been solid.
“I remember meeting with Paul on a Thursday, I think it was,” Dano said in 2008 during an interview with Terry Gross. “We looked at some scenes and talked about the part a little bit. He said ‘I’d like you to do this part’ and they had been filming a little bit.”
It solely gave Dano a couple of days to have the opportunity to put together to play Eli, a boy preacher locked in an intense battle with the oilman. That function was performed by Day-Lewis, who had a 12 months to put together for the function.
Much just like the dialog across the cult following for Tarantino’s “Jackie Brown,” it’s a thriller as to why Anderson pivoted to give Dano the extra half.
Dano has been critically acclaimed for not solely his flip in “There Will Be Blood,” but in addition for his work in different tasks together with “Little Miss Sunshine,” and “The Fabelmans.” NCS has reached out to his reps for remark.
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