Paul Dano got slammed by Tarantino. Now, he's 'grateful that the world spoke up for me'

After Paul Dano came nether unexpected occurrence from filmmaker Quentin Tarantino successful December, the “There Will Be Blood” prima received enactment from chap artists including Daniel Day-Lewis and Ben Stiller. A period aft the drama, helium is present returning the love.

Dano yet publically addressed Tarantino’s arguable comments astatine the Sundance Film Festival during a 20th day screening of “Little Miss Sunshine.” Speaking to Variety, helium said the groundswell of enactment “was truly nice.”

Tarantino appeared connected Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast successful December to fertile his apical 10 films of the century. The “Django Unchained” and “Pulp Fiction” filmmaker placed Paul Thomas Anderson’s lipid play “There Will Be Blood” astatine No. 5 connected his list, and said specifically Dano — not his show — was the “big, elephantine flaw” successful the Oscar-winning film. “There Will Be Blood” stars Dano arsenic fiery preacher Eli Sunday and Day-Lewis arsenic lipid tycoon Daniel Plainview.

When the movie was released successful 2007, erstwhile Times movie professional Kenneth Turan praised Dano arsenic “smoothly effective” and gifted. Clearly, Tarantino thought otherwise.

“He is anemic sauce, man. He’s a anemic sister,” Tarantino said, adding that helium thought “Elvis” prima Austin Butler (who was a teen launching his vocation connected Disney Channel and Nickelodeon erstwhile the movie came out) would person been a amended histrion for the part. “He’s conscionable specified a weak, weak, uninteresting guy,” helium said.

Tarantino added: “You enactment [Day-Lewis] with the the weakest f— histrion successful SAG?”

A fistful of Dano’s collaborators instantly defended him. “Escape astatine Dannemora” enforcement shaper Stiller praised him arsenic “brilliant” and Reese Witherspoon called her “Inherent Vice” co-star an “incredibly gifted, versatile actor” and a gentleman. Matt Reeves, Josh Gad, Alec Baldwin and Simu Liu besides voiced their enactment for Dano, whose credits see Steven Speilberg’s Oscar-nominated “The Fabelmans,” Bong Joon Ho‘s “Okja” and Oscar-winning manager duo Daniels’ (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) “Swiss Army Man.”

“I was besides incredibly grateful that the satellite spoke up for maine truthful I didn’t person to,” Dano said astatine the Sundance screening.

Before Dano responded, though, Toni Collette (who played his ma successful “Little Miss Sunshine”) chimed in, dismissing “that guy” Tarantino and speculating that “he must’ve been high.”

“It was conscionable confusing. Who does that?,” she said, according to Variety. “Little Miss Sunshine” directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris besides criticized Tarantino and praised their star.

During his podcast quality successful December, Tarantino besides slammed Owen Wilson and shriek king Matthew Lillard. In an interrogation with Entertainment Weekly published Wednesday, Lillard brushed disconnected the shadiness and recalled the ensuing societal media praise for his talents. “It was similar surviving done your ain wake,” Lillard told EW.

“All those R.I.P. emails oregon tweets and Instagram posts and TikToks, each of the things we spot aft idiosyncratic passes are truthful sweet,” helium added. “And the world is I conscionable got to unrecorded done each of it firsthand — live and kicking! I can’t ideate a much beauteous absorption to what happened.”