Quentin Tarantino skewers Rosanna Arquette for criticizing his N-word use
Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has pushed back after actress Rosanna Arquette slammed his use of the N-word in his films as ‘racist and creepy.’
The two-time Oscar-winner, 62, in a statement to the Daily Mail, implied that the 66-year-old actress made the remarks as a means of clout chasing.
Tarantino made reference to the wave of media coverage the comments from Arquette received in his reply.
He said, ‘Dear Rosanna, I hope the publicity you’re getting from 132 different media outlets writing your name and printing your picture was worth disrespecting me and a film I remember quite clearly you were thrilled to be a part of?’
Tarantino was critical of Arquette – who played the role of drug dealer Lance’s (Eric Stoltz) wife Jody in the 1994 movie – for slamming the motion picture more than three decades after its release.
‘Do you feel this way now? Very possibly’ Tarantino said. ‘After I gave you a job, and you took the money, to trash it for what I suspect is very cynical reasons, shows a decided lack of class, no less honor.’
Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has pushed back after actress Rosanna Arquette slammed his use of the N-word in his films a ‘racist and creepy.’
The director said that ‘there is supposed to be an esprit de corps between artistic colleagues.’
The French phrase used by Tarantino referred to ‘the common spirit existing in the members of a group and inspiring enthusiasm, devotion, and strong regard for the honor of the group,’ according to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary.
Tarantino told Arquette, ‘It would appear the objective was accomplished,’ finishing off the statement in writing, ‘Congratulations – Q.’
Speaking with The Sunday Times, Arquette called Pulp Fiction ‘iconic’ and ‘a great film on a lot of levels’ while expressing her ire with the use of the racial slur (about 20 times) in the motion picture.
‘Personally I am over the use of the N-word – I hate it,’ Arquette said.
Arquette said she didn’t feel Tarantino’s auteur status should enable him to liberally use the word in his scripts.
‘I cannot stand that [Tarantino] has been given a hall pass,’ she said. ‘It’s not art, it’s just racist and creepy.’
Speaking with The Sunday Times, Arquette called Pulp Fiction ‘iconic’ and ‘a great film on a lot of levels’ while expressing her ire with the use of the racial slur (about 20 times) in the motion picture. Pictured in February in NYC
The director in a scene in the film playing the character Jimmie
Arquette played the role of drug dealer Lance’s (Eric Stoltz) wife Jody in the 1994 movie
Arquette in the interview also opened up about the finances involved with the film, saying that she was ‘the only person who didn’t get a back end’ of the massive profits of the motion picture.
She added, ‘Everybody made money except me,’ citing sexual harassment she experienced from Pulp Fiction producer Harvey Weinstein at the Beverly Hills Hotel in the years before the movie was released.
Arquette was one of dozens of women who accused the disgraced producer of sexual misconduct amid the #MeToo movement in late 2017, which ultimately led to Weinstein’s 2022 sex assault conviction in California.
‘I was fortunate because I was not raped,’ Arquette said of her encounter with Weinstein. ‘But, boy, was it going there and I paid a price for saying no, and later I paid a price for telling the truth.’
