Sundance Goes Wild for Paul Dano After Quentin Tarantino Comments
Sundance shined a light on Searchlight’s Little Miss Sunshine Wednesday night by hosting what turned out be an electric 20th anniversary screening inside Park City’s Eccles Theatre. And some of those rays fell on Paul Dano, who made his first public appearance since Quentin Tarantino shocked the internet by criticizing the actor’s work in Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, opposite Daniel Day-Lewis, by labeling him the “flaw” of the film and dissing Dano as “weak sauce, man.” In the weeks since, filmmakers, peers and countless fans have shown their support. But it wasn’t until this week that the actor addressed it himself. During a Little Miss Sunshine press event at Sundance ahead of the screening, Dano told Variety that fielding the love “was really nice,” adding, “I was also incredibly grateful that the world spoke up for me so I didn’t have to.” When asked about the controversy, Little Miss Sunshine co-star Toni Collette also told Variety, “Are we really going there? Fuck that guy [Tarantino]. Who does that?” Back to the screening. …
