Overview
- Hawke shared the quip on the Nov. 4 episode of Amy Poehler’s Good Hang while recalling her brief role in 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
- The comment plays on a long-observed pattern of barefoot close-ups in Quentin Tarantino’s films that fans and media have cataloged for years.
- Brad Pitt famously ribbed the director during his 2020 SAG Awards speech, listing co-stars’ feet while accepting for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
- Tarantino brushed off the “foot fetish” narrative in a 2021 GQ interview, calling the shots a directorial choice and citing Buñuel, Hitchcock and Coppola as precedents.
- Reporting also revisited Uma Thurman’s 2018 account of a Kill Bill set crash and Tarantino’s expressed regret, with Thurman later saying she forgave him.