Quentin Tarantino has broken his silence after Rosanna Arquette chastised the famed director for his use of the N-word throughout Pulp Fiction.
“Dear Rosanna, I hope the publicity you’re getting from 132 different media outlets writing your name and printing your picture was price disrespecting me and a movie I remember quite clearly you were thrilled to be an element of?” Tarantino, 62, told Us Weekly in an announcement on Monday, March 9, after Arquette, 66, criticized the director’s use of the racial slur within the 1994 hit.
“Do you’re feeling this manner now?” Tarantino continued. “Very possibly. After I gave you a job, and also you took the cash, to trash it for what I believe could be very cynical reasons, shows a decided lack of sophistication, no less honor.”
Tarantino’s comment got here days after Arquette, who played Jody in Pulp Fiction, spoke with The Sunday Times concerning the Oscar-winning film.
Arquette told the outlet in an interview published on Saturday, March 7, that Pulp Fiction was an “iconic” and “great” movie “on a variety of levels.”
She did have one big issue with the classic film, which starred John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson.
Rosanna Arquette in ‘Pulp Fiction.’ Miramax/Everett Collection
“Personally I’m over using the N-word — I hate it,” Arquette confessed, referring to the racial slur which was used about 20 times throughout the movie. “I cannot stand that he [Tarantino] has been given a hall pass. It’s not art, it’s just racist and creepy.”
Arquette, who famously portrayed Eric Stoltz’s drug dealer character Lance’s wife, noted that she also took issue with how little she made off the movie — but didn’t blame Tarantino for her measly paycheck.
“I’m the one one that didn’t get a back end [share of the takings at the box office]. Everybody made money except me,” she claimed, pointing to the film’s producer Harvey Weinstein because the one in charge for the alleged monetary slight.
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Arquette was considered one of several actresses who publicly accused Weinstein, 73, of sexual misconduct and assault prior to his conviction in Recent York in 2020 and in Los Angeles in 2022 for sexual assault. Greater than 100 women got here forward against the now disgraced producer, sparking the worldwide #MeToo movement.
Despite his Recent York City conviction being overturned on appeal in 2024, Weinstein is currently serving a 16-year jail sentence as a consequence of his California conviction. (Weinstein has maintained his innocence and denied all accusations.)
During her interview with The Sunday Times, Arquette recalled meeting with Weinstein a few script. When she got to his room on the Beverly Hills Hotel, he allegedly answered the door in his bathrobe before attempting to place her hand on his penis.
“I used to be fortunate because I used to be not raped,” Arquette told the outlet. “But, boy, was it going there and I paid a price for saying no, and later I paid a price for telling the reality.”
She claims that because she refused Weinstein within the early Nineteen Nineties, he retaliated by denying her or keeping her from various acting roles for years.
“There’s a photograph of a charity auction on the Cannes Film Festival [in 2001],” Arquette recalled. “I look really thin and he’s standing next to me, but you possibly can see the horror in my smile. I used to be not a cushty woman.”
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