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Sundance Goes Wild for Paul Dano After Quentin Tarantino Comments

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. …

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 …