Quentin Tarantino break the silence after that Rosanna Arquette reprimanded the famed director for using the N word throughout Pulp Fiction.
“Dear Rosanna, I hope the publicity you get from 132 media outlets writing your name and printing your picture was disrespectful to me and the film I remember so well that you enjoyed being a part of it?” Tarantino, 62, told Us Weekly in a statement on Monday, March 9, after Arquette, 66, criticized the director’s use of a racial slur in the 1994 song.
“Do you feel this way now?” Tarantino continued. “It’s very possible. After I gave you a job, and you took the money, to throw it away for what I suspect are the worst reasons, shows a lack of class, and little respect.”
Tarantino’s comments came days after Arquette, who played Jody in the Pulp Fictionhe spoke to The Sunday Times about the Oscar-winning film.
Arquette told the outlet in an interview published Saturday, March 7, that Pulp Fiction it was an “iconic” and “beautiful” film on “so many levels.”
He had one major problem with the old film, which played out John Travolta, If Thurman again Samuel L. Jackson.
Rosanna Arquette in ‘Pulp Fiction.’
Miramax/Everett Collection“Personally I’m over the use of the N-word — I hate it,” Arquette admitted, referring to the racial slur that was used about 20 times throughout the film. “I will not tolerate that [Tarantino] you have been given a hall pass. It’s not art, it’s just bigotry and it’s scary.”
Arquette, who was famously portrayed Eric StoltzThe character of Lance’s drug dealer wife, noted that she also faced controversy with how little she made in the film – but did not blame Tarantino for her low pay.
“I’m the only person who didn’t make it [share of the takings at the box office]. Everyone made money except me,” he said, pointing to the producer of the film Harvey Weinstein such as the one who is to be blamed for small money allegations.
Patricia Arquette has spoken of the discomfort she experienced while filming a nude scene in 1997’s Lost Highway – long before intimacy consultants were available. “I mean, I’ve always been very modest about nudity and sex and all that,” he told Business Insider in an interview published on Friday, March 7. The Academy. […]
Arquette was one of the few actresses to publicly accuse Weinstein, 73, of sexual misconduct and harassment ahead of his sentencing in New York in 2020 and Los Angeles in 2022 for sexual assault. More than 100 women came forward to stand against the disgraced producer, leading to the worldwide #MeToo movement.
Although his conviction in New York City was overturned in 2024, Weinstein is serving 16 years in prison for his conviction in California. (Weinstein has maintained his innocence and denied all charges.)
When he was talking to The Sunday TimesArquette recalled meeting Weinstein about the script. When he got to her room at the Beverly Hills Hotel, he allegedly opened the door in his bathrobe before trying to put his hand on her private part.
“I was lucky because I didn’t get raped,” Arquette told the outlet. “But, boy, it was going there and I paid the price for saying no, and later I paid the price for telling the truth.”
She says that because she rejected Weinstein in the early 1990s, she retaliated by denying or keeping him from many acting roles for years.
“There is a picture of a charity auction at the Cannes Film Festival [in 2001],” Arquette recalled. I was not a free woman.”
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