Quentin Tarantino is under fire after The Office star Zach Woods unleashed a blistering public takedown of the famed director.
The scathing critique came after Tarantino attacked several Hollywood actors on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast last week.
On the podcast, he called Paul Dano ‘the weakest f****** actor in SAG’ and took aim at Matthew Lillard — remarks that immediately sparked outrage across Hollywood.
Woods, best known as Gabe Lewis on the hit NBC series, fired back in a series of viral Instagram and TikTok videos.
He dubbed the Oscar-winning filmmaker a ‘pompous ass’ and insisted that he’s the ‘actual terrible actor’ for repeatedly casting himself in his own films.
The 41-year-old didn’t stop there, also blasting Tarantino for ‘ripping off Asian directors’ and criticizing him for defending Roman Polanski, whom he called a ‘statutory rape apologist.’
Quentin Tarantino is under fire after The Office star Zach Woods (pictured) unleashed a blistering public takedown of the famed director
The scathing critique came after Tarantino attacked several Hollywood actors on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast last week; (pictured 2024)
He told Tarantino, ‘The only movie I want to see you in is Ring camera footage of [Tarantino] having a stroke in [his] own home.’
He added, ‘You are so enamored by the sound of your own voice, you probably would f*** one of your own opinions if you could.’
Woods even played the controversial Howard Stern clip in which Tarantino downplayed Polanski’s sexual assault of a minor, a remark he later apologized for in 2018.
Fans and fellow actors quickly rallied behind Dano and Lillard, but few defenses have been as savage — or as poetic — as Woods’s.
In his first video, he quipped that Tarantino’s recent films ‘take a historical villain — slave owners, Nazis, the Manson family — and then use them as a thin pretext to enact your same old tired pornographic violence, and then some shot of feet and the N-word.’
By Tuesday, Woods had returned for a second round, mock-apologizing before hitting Tarantino with, ‘You rip off everyone, from Hong Kong auteurs to Bill Maher’s barber, and you look weird as sh** — and that’s coming from a guy who looks like a bird had sex with another more tired bird.’
Woods also dubbed Tarantino ‘the Megyn Kelly of guys who look like a turtle.’
Meanwhile, Dano has shown that Tarantino’s scathing words haven’t slowed him down one bit.
Woods, best known as Gabe Lewis on the hit NBC series, fired back in a series of viral Instagram and TikTok videos
He dubbed the Oscar-winning filmmaker a ‘pompous ass’ and insisted that he’s the ‘actual terrible actor’ for repeatedly casting himself in his own films
In his first video, he quipped that Tarantino’s recent films ‘take a historical villain — slave owners, Nazis, the Manson family — and then use them as a thin pretext to enact your same old tired pornographic violence, and then some shot of feet and the N-word’; (pictured 2020)
The actor was reportedly booked for his next role on Monday, shrugging off being labeled a ‘weak, uninteresting guy’ by the famed director.
He is set to star in the psychological thriller Bunker, which also features the powerhouse married duo of Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, Variety reports.
This latest casting proves that Dano’s career momentum remains strong, even in the face of high-profile criticism.
In the podcast Tarantino said of Dano: ‘Obviously, it’s supposed to be a two-hander, but it’s also drastically obvious that it’s not a two-hander. [Dano] is weak sauce, man. He is the weak sister.
‘Austin Butler would have been wonderful in that role. [Dano] is just such a weak, weak, uninteresting guy.’
His savage comments have sparked backlash online as one Reddit user branded him ‘classless’.
They penned: ‘This was an incredibly classless thing for Tarantino to say.’
Others wrote: ‘This is an insane take.’
‘There must be some weird behind-the-scenes grudge here. As a side note, Tarantino legitimately is the weakest actor I’ve ever seen, so maybe he’s trying to pass that title to someone else.’
During the chat, he named his top ten movies of the 21st century, with a war film leading the list.
He named Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down (2001) as the best film of the current century.
Tarantino said he wanted to include period drama There Will Be Blood higher in the list than number five but he couldn’t because it stars Paul as twins Paul and Eli Sunday (Paul is seen in the film)
There Will Be Blood was Dillon’s only film role (seen as an adult)
Quentin compared Paul’s performance to Daniel Day-Lewis’s and called the actor a ‘weak sauce’
Tarantino shared his admiration for Scott’s war epic, inspired by the real ordeal of a downed Black Hawk crew in the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia.
‘I liked it when I first saw it, but I actually think it was so intense that it stopped working for me, and I didn’t carry it with me the way that I should’ve,’ he shared.
He went on to watch the film a few more times, referring to the film as a ‘masterwork’.
‘This is the only movie that actually goes completely for an Apocalypse Now sense of purpose and visual effect and feeling, and I think it achieves it.’
The filmmaker went on: ‘It keeps up the intensity for 2 hours 45 minutes, or whatever it is, and I watched it again recently, my heart was going through the entire runtime of the movie; it had me and never let me go, and I hadn’t seen it in a while.’
‘The feat of direction is beyond extraordinary,’ he added of the movie, which stars Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, and Eric Bana.
Black Hawk Down also featured a number of actors who were early in their careers, including Tom Hardy, Orlando Bloom and Jason Isaacs, among others.
The movie received four Academy Award nominations and won two for Best Film Editing and Best Sound.
Scott’s legendary directing career also includes Gladiator (2000), Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), and Kingdom of Heaven (2005).
Tarantino’s best movie list also surprisingly included Lee Unkrich’s animated movie Toy Story 3 in second place.
At number three was Sofia Coppola’s Lost In Translation, followed by another war film, Christopher Nolan‘s Dunkirk.
Dillon told TMZ: ‘The film is perfect. It’s a work of art. And it’s that way because everyone was perfectly cast’
He named Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood in fifth place, followed by David Fincher’s Zodiac, and Tony Scott’s Unstoppable.
The last three films on his list were George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road at number eight, Edgar Wright’s Shaun Of The Dead, and Woody Allen‘s Midnight In Paris in the last spot.
Meanwhile, Tarantino referred to his second pick, Toy Story 3, as an ‘almost perfect movie’.
‘That last five minutes ripped my f*****g heart out, and if I even try to describe the end, I’ll start crying and get choked up,’ he shared, adding, ‘It’s just remarkable’.
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