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Paul Dano<\/strong> is grateful for a little bit of sunshine.<\/span><\/p>\n Nearly two months after director <\/span>Quentin Tarantino<\/strong><\/a> called him \u201cthe weakest f–king actor in SAG,\u201d Paul attended the <\/span>Sundance Film Festival<\/span><\/a> to celebrate the 20th anniversary of <\/span>Little Miss Sunshine<\/span> alongside his costar <\/span>Toni Collette<\/strong><\/a>, and the pair weighed in with their thoughts on the director\u2019s criticism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAre we really going there?\u201d Toni said to <\/span>Variety<\/span><\/a> Jan. 28. \u201cF–k that guy! He must\u2019ve been high\u2026 it was just confusing. Who does that?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Paul then reacted to the support he received from Toni, as well as stars from across Hollywood.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThat was really nice,\u201d the 41-year-old responded. \u201cI was also incredibly grateful that the world spoke up for me so I didn\u2019t have to.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Indeed, after Quentin <\/span>referred to Paul\u2019s performance<\/span><\/a> in the 2007 movie <\/span>There Will Be Blood<\/span> as a \u201cgiant flaw\u201d and \u201cweak sauce\u201d on the Dec. 2 episode of <\/span>The Bret Easton Ellis<\/span><\/a> podcast, per <\/span>Deadline<\/span><\/a>, celebs like <\/span>Reese Witherspoon <\/strong>and <\/span>Ben Stiller<\/strong> <\/span>came to his defense<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paul Dano is grateful for a little bit of sunshine. Nearly two months after director Quentin Tarantino called him \u201cthe weakest f–king actor in SAG,\u201d Paul attended the Sundance Film Festival to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Little Miss Sunshine alongside his costar Toni Collette, and the pair weighed in with their thoughts on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2256381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2256380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Paul-Dano-Reacts-to-Quentin-Tarantino-Weakest-Actor-Comment.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2256380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2256382,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256380\/revisions\/2256382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2256381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}