Overview
- At GalaxyCon Columbus, Lillard told fans that Tarantino saying he didn’t like him as an actor “hurts your feelings” and “it f—ing sucks.”
- Tarantino made the remarks on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, where he also criticized Paul Dano’s There Will Be Blood performance as “the weakest f—ing actor in SAG.”
- The director added he doesn’t care for Dano, Owen Wilson or Lillard, describing Dano’s work as a “non-entity” performance.
- Paul Dano has not publicly responded, while Matt Reeves, Ben Stiller, Simu Liu and Alec Baldwin publicly praised Dano’s talent.
- Lillard reflected that he’s “very popular in this room” but “not very popular in Hollywood,” highlighting the gap between fan support and industry perception.