{"id":2296481,"date":"2026-02-23T23:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2296481"},"modified":"2026-02-23T23:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:21:12","slug":"matthew-lillard-says-tarantino-dissing-him-felt-like-he-got-punched-in-the-mouth-because-hed-love-to-be-in-a-tarantino-movie-just-kind-of-a-bumme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/matthew-lillard-says-tarantino-dissing-him-felt-like-he-got-punched-in-the-mouth-because-hed-love-to-be-in-a-tarantino-movie-just-kind-of-a-bumme\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Lillard Says Tarantino Dissing Him Felt Like He Got \u2018Punched in the Mouth\u2019 Because He\u2019d \u2018Love\u2019 to Be in a Tarantino Movie: \u2018Just Kind of a Bummer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000498\/\">Matthew Lillard<\/a> told People magazine that he would \u201clove\u201d to be in a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000233\/\">Quentin Tarantino<\/a> movie, which is why it \u201csucked\u201d when the director criticized him last year along with fellow actors <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0200452\/\">Paul Dano<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005562\/\">Owen Wilson<\/a>. Lillard added: \u201cI think he\u2019s a lovely filmmaker, and to just sort of get punched in the mouth just was kind of a bummer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During a viral interview on \u201cThe Bret Easton Ellis Podcast\u201d last fall, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3258003\/\">Tarantino<\/a> slammed Dano as \u201cthe weakest fucking actor in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0611542\/\">SAG<\/a>\u201d and added that \u201cI don\u2019t care for\u201d Lillard or Wilson either.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt felt like I had died and was in heaven watching everyone send out their Rip tweets,\u201d Lillard told people about the reaction that followed. \u201cI mean, it was really being a part of your own wake, sort of sitting there living through all the nice things people say after you die\u2026 Everyone, from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Lillard told People magazine that he would \u201clove\u201d to be in a Quentin Tarantino movie, which is why it \u201csucked\u201d when the director criticized him last year along with fellow actors Paul Dano and Owen Wilson. 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