Matthew Lillard is breaking his silence after famed director Quentin Tarantino criticized his abilities as an actor.
“Quentin Tarantino this week said he didn’t like me as an actor,” Lillard could possibly be heard saying on Friday, December 5, while appearing at GalaxyCon in Columbus, Ohio, per footage shared from the event, prompting boos from the gang, per Entertainment Weekly. “Eh, whatever. Who gives a s***.”
After the gang quieted, Lillard admitted, “It hurts your feelings. It f***ing sucks. And also you wouldn’t say that to Tom Cruise. You wouldn’t say that to any person who’s a top-line actor in Hollywood. I’m very fashionable on this room. I’m not very fashionable in Hollywood. Two totally different microcosms. So it’s humbling, and it hurts.”
Lillard’s comments come days after Tarantino, 62, appeared in a recent episode of “The Bet Easton Ellis Podcast,” revealing his top 10 movies of the twenty first century and, in turn, his least favorite actors.
After naming iconic method actor Daniel Day-Lewis’ There Will Be Blood as his No. 5 film of the century, Tarantino slammed Day-Lewis’ former costar, Paul Dano, claiming he’s “the weakest male actor in SAG.”
“[Dano is] just such a weak, weak, uninteresting guy. … Daniel Day-Lewis shows that he doesn’t need [a powerful onscreen foe]. He doesn’t need anything,” Tarantino complained on the time “The movie would’ve had more — there would’ve been more stringiness to the meat. And again, it’s presupposed to be a two-hander, and it’s not.”
Dano played twin brothers Paul and Eli Sunday within the 2007 film, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The period drama starred Day-Lewis as a miner-turned-oilman who travels to California in the course of the state’s oil boom within the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, delivering the long-lasting line, “I drink your milkshake, I drink it up” while describing just how the ruthless oil business works.
“Obviously, it’s presupposed to be a two-hander, and it’s also so drastically obvious that it’s not a two-hander,” Tarantino said of the film in the course of the same podcast episode. “[Dano] is weak sauce, man. He’s a weak sister.”
Tarantino then turned his sights on a slew of other actors, including Lillard, who didn’t appear in any of the director’s top 10 movies.
“I don’t look after [Dano], I don’t look after Owen Wilson, and I don’t look after Matthew Lillard,” the filmmaker said.
As for Wilson, Tarantino took issue with Wilson’s role in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris.
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“I spent the primary time watching the movie loving it and hating him,” Tarantino said of Wilson’s performance. “The second time I watched the movie, I used to be like, ‘Ah, OK, don’t be such a price. He’s not so bad. He’s not so bad.” After which the third time I watched it, I discovered myself watching him.”
Within the film, Wilson, 57, plays a screenwriter and aspiring novelist scuffling with his relationship along with his materialistic fiancée (Rachel McAdams) while on vacation in Paris. As Wilson’s character is working through his struggles, he’s transported back through time every night to the Twenties, where he converses with real-life artists like Ernest Hemingway (Corey Stoll) and Salvador Dalí (Adrien Brody).
“The surrealists were really funny. I like the concept he’s attempting to describe his time-travel thing to them, and it’s the one individuals who completely get it,” Tarantino said of the film’s plot. “Well, after all you get it, you’re surrealists!”