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Toni Collette Defends Paul Dano After Quentin Tarantino Jibes

Toni Collette Defends Paul Dano After Quentin Tarantino Jibes

Paul Dano has finally responded after director Quentin Tarantino tore into him for seemingly no reason during a recent interview. Last month, Dano came up in conversation while Tarantino’s appearance on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, where the filmmaker hailed There Will Be Blood as one of his favourite movies, but claimed there was one “big giant flaw in it”. “The flaw is Paul Dano,” the Pulp Fiction director claimed. “Obviously, it’s supposed to be a two-hander, and it’s also so drastically obvious that it’s not a two-hander. [Dano] is weak sauce, man. He’s a weak sister.” “I’m not saying he’s giving a terrible performance. I’m saying he’s giving a non-entity [performance]. I don’t care for him,” Tarantino added later referring to him as the “weakest fucking actor in SAG”, before listing Owen Wilson and Matthew Lillard as two other actors he doesn’t “care for”. At the time, many were perplexed by the comments, with Dano being asked about it during a reunion with his Little Miss Sunshine co-stars at the Sundance Film Festival. Toni …