Los Angeles, March 9 – Hollywood actress Rosanna Arquette has criticized filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, who directed her in ‘Pulp Fiction’.
The actress stated that Quentin Tarantino has a “free pass” to use the N-word in his films, which she considers “racist and unsettling”. According to ‘Variety’, she told The Sunday Times, "It's iconic, a great film on many levels. But personally, I find the use of the N-word offensive, and I hate it."
She further added, "I cannot accept that he (Tarantino) has been given this free pass. It's not art; it's simply racist and unsettling."
According to 'Variety', in a 2022 appearance on ‘Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace’, a defiant Tarantino said that audiences should "go see something else" if they are offended by his use of the N-word or the graphic displays of violence in his films.
When prompted by Wallace to respond to his critics, Tarantino said, "Then go see something else. If you have a problem with my movies, then they are not the movies for you. Apparently, I am not making them for you."
His frequent collaborator Samuel L. Jackson has long defended Tarantino's use of the slur in his films, including for ‘Django Unchained’. The 2012 action western drew significant backlash at the time of its release for its frequent use of the N-word, which is said in the film nearly 110 times.
In the 2019 documentary “QT8: The First Eight,” which chronicles the first 21 years of Tarantino’s filmmaking career, Jackson said in an interview, "You take '12 Years a Slave,' which is supposedly made by an auteur. Steve McQueen is very different from Quentin. When you have a song that says (the N-word) in it 300 times, nobody says s*".
"So it's okay for Steve McQueen to use (the N-word) because he's artistically attacking the system and the way people think and feel, but Quentin is just doing it to simply hit the blackboard with his nails. That's not true. There's no dishonesty in anything that (Quentin) writes or how people talk, feel, or speak," he added.
