Quentin Tarantino Blasts Pulp Fiction Star Rosanna Arquette's Comments About N-Word Use In His Films
Quentin Tarantino has responded to Pulp Fiction star Rosanna Arquette’s recent comments lamenting that the film industry had given the Oscar winner a “hall-pass” to include racial slurs in his movies.
On Monday evening, Tarantino issued a response to remarks made by Arquette in an interview with The Times published over the weekend.”
“Personally I am over the use of the N-word – I hate it. I cannot stand that he has been given a hall pass,” she said, referring to the fact that the racist slur has featured in Tarantino movies like 2012’s Django Unchained and 2015’s The Hateful Eight.
She insisted: “It’s not art, it’s just racist and creepy.”
Following this, Tarantino said (as reported by TheWrap): “I hope the publicity you’re getting from 132 different media outlets writing your name and printing your picture was worth disrespecting me and a film I remember quite clearly you were thrilled to be a part of? Do you feel this way now? Very possibly.
“But after I gave you a job, and you took the money, to trash it for what I suspect is very cynical reasons, shows a decided lack of class, no less honour.”
Elsewhere in her Times interview, Arquette spoke favourably about other aspects of Pulp Fiction, describing it as “iconic” and “a great film on a lot of levels”.
Tarantino’s latest film Once Upon A Time In Hollywood was released in 2019, with reports claiming last year that he’d scrapped plans for his next big-screen offering, The Movie Critic, because of its similarities with his previous project.
In the last few years, Tarantino has also written a novelisation of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, as well as a spin-off, The Adventures Of Cliff Booth, slated for release later this year, with David Fincher on directing duties.
He has also turned his hand to writing for the stage, with a play he’s also poised to direct on London’s West End.