Actor Rosanna Arquette, who portrayed the girlfriend of drug dealer Lance (Eric Stoltz) in the movie “Pulp Fiction,” has called out its director for using the N-word in his films.
Arquette said she thinks Quentin Tarantino has been given a “hall pass” to use the racial slur in movies like “Django Unchained,” “The Hateful Eight,” “Jackie Brown” and “Pulp Fiction.”
“Personally I am over the use of the N-word — I hate it. I cannot stand that he has been given a hall pass,” Arquette told The Sunday Times (UK). “It’s not art, it’s just racist and creepy.”
Arquette also noted that she thought “Pulp Fiction” was “iconic” on a “lot of levels,” however, she stressed that Tarantino had no business using the derogatory term.
Arquette isn’t the only Hollywood star who has decried Tarantino’s usage of the pejorative. In 2012, director Spike Lee criticized Tarantino for using the N-word in “Django Unchained,” telling Vibe magazine that doing so was “disrespectful to my ancestors.”
In “Django Unchained,” a film set in the 1850s about a slave (Jamie Foxx) who goes on a mission with an unorthodox German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to rescue his wife (Kerry Washington) from a psychotic slave owner (Leonardo DiCaprio), the N-word was used more than 100 times by both Black and white actors. The film received five nominations at the 2013 Academy Awards, with Waltz winning an Oscar for best supporting actor. Tarantino also won for best original screenplay for the controversial film.
Tarantino used the N-word while defending himself against critics backstage at the 2013 Golden Globes after he scored the best screenplay award for “Django Unchained.”
“They’re saying I should soften it, they’re saying I should lie, they’re saying I should white wash, they’re saying I should massage,” he said. “And I never do that when it comes to my characters.”
Nearly a decade later, Tarantino defiantly maintained his stance on using the racial slur during a 2022 appearance on “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace,” and urged filmgoers who were offended to “see something else.”
“If you have a problem with my movies, then they aren’t the movies to go see. Apparently, I’m not making them for you,” Tarantino said.
Actor Samuel L. Jackson, who has starred in six Tarantino films that repeatedly used the N-word, defended Tarantino’s work, arguing that it was a contextual matter.
“Every time someone wants an example of overuse of the N-word, they go to Quentin — it’s unfair,” Jackson told UK’s The Sunday Times in 2022. “He’s just telling the story, and the characters do talk like that. When [’12 Years a Slave’ director] Steve McQueen does it, it’s art. He’s an artiste. Quentin’s just a popcorn filmmaker.”
Jackson also called the backlash that Tarantino has faced “some bullshit” in a 2019 interview with Esquire magazine.
Explaining that he “warned Quentin about [keeping] the whole ‘n****r storage’ [movie line in the script], he continued, “I was like, ‘Don’t say ‘nigger storage.’” He’s like, ‘No, I’m going to say it like that.’ And we tried to soften it by making his wife black, because that wasn’t originally written.”
“But you can’t just tell a writer he can’t talk, write the words, put the words in the mouths of the people from their ethnicities, the way that they use their words,” Jackson added. “You cannot do that, because then it becomes an untruth; it’s not honest. It’s just not honest.”
Foxx defended Tarantino in a 2018 interview with Yahoo! Entertainment, saying that he found the director’s use of the word acceptable only due to the historical accuracy of the word in relation to the script.
“I understood the text,” Foxx explained. “The N-word was said 100 times, but I understood the text — that’s the way it was back in that time.”
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