Actor says the defence of his peers and fans was ‘really nice’ after Quentin Tarantino’s scathing assessment calling Dano ‘a weak, weak, uninteresting guy’
Paul Dano has responded to Quentin Tarantino’s scathing criticism of his acting abilities, thanking those who came to his defence after Tarantino called him a “weak, uninteresting guy” and “the limpest dick in the world”.
On Wednesday, Dano told Variety that the supportive responses that poured in from his peers and across social media was touching.
“That was really nice,” Dano said. “I was also incredibly grateful that the world spoke up for me so I didn’t have to.”
While speaking about his favourite films of the 21st century on Bret Easton Ellis’s podcast in December, Tarantino put Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood at No 5, but told Ellis it would have been No 1 or 2 if Dano wasn’t in it, comparing his performance unfavourably to that of the film’s star, Daniel Day-Lewis.
