{"id":2323128,"date":"2026-03-11T14:47:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2323128"},"modified":"2026-03-11T14:47:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:47:53","slug":"quentin-tarantino-slams-rosanna-arquette-over-pulp-fiction-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/quentin-tarantino-slams-rosanna-arquette-over-pulp-fiction-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Quentin Tarantino slams Rosanna Arquette over &#8216;Pulp Fiction&#8217; remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"column eleven-column byline-section\">\n<p><span class=\"author\"\/><span class=\"publication\"><span slot=\"bylineInfo\" class=\"authors\">Anthony Robledo<\/span><br \/>\n<span slot=\"bylineInfo\" class=\"credit\">\u00a0|\u00a0 USA TODAY Network<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Director\u00a0Quentin Tarantino\u00a0has harsh words for actress\u00a0Rosanna Arquette\u00a0after she criticized his decision to include a racial slur in &#8220;Pulp Fiction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Arquette, who played the wife of drug dealer Lance (Eric Stoltz), in Tarantino&#8217;s Oscar-winning cult classic, called the 1994 film great and iconic on &#8220;a lot of levels&#8221; but condemned the use of a racial slur in a\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/life-style\/celebrity\/article\/rosanna-arquette-harvey-weinstein-the-moment-charli-xcx-interview-0j3csql9h\">Sunday Times<\/a>\u00a0interview published on\u00a0March 7.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But personally, I am over the use of the [slur] \u2013 I hate it. I cannot stand that [Tarantino] has been given a hall pass,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not art, it&#8217;s just racist and creepy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Kill Bill&#8221; director slammed Arquette&#8217;s remarks in a statement shared with USA TODAY on Tuesday, March 10, accusing her of only critiquing him for the press coverage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope the publicity you&#8217;re getting from 132 different media outlets writing your name and printing your picture was worth disrespecting me and a film I remember quite clearly you were thrilled to be a part of?&#8221; his statement read.<\/p>\n<p>USA TODAY has reached out to Arquette&#8217;s representatives for comment.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 wp-block-heading\">Quentin Tarantino bashes Rosanna Arquette after she calls the director out<\/h2>\n<p>Tarantino responded to Arquette&#8217;s claims that she harbors resentment over the money she didn&#8217;t receive after the film&#8217;s release. &#8220;Do you feel this way now? Very possibly,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But after I gave you a job, and you took the money, to trash it for what I suspect is very\u00a0cynical\u00a0reasons, shows a decided lack of class, no less honor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also criticized her for not showing &#8220;esprit de corps,&#8221; which he believes should exist among artistic colleagues. &#8220;But it would appear the objective was accomplished. Congratulations Q,&#8221; the director concluded.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 wp-block-heading\">Rosanna Arquette speaks out about Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Weinstein<\/h2>\n<p>Along with her disapproval of the racial slur in &#8220;Pulp Fiction,&#8221; Arquette also said she was the only person who didn&#8217;t get a backend share of the movie&#8217;s takings, which she blamed on\u00a0Harvey Weinstein, who was a producer on the movie. &#8220;Everybody made money except me,&#8221; she told the Sunday Times.<\/p>\n<p>Arquette was\u00a0among the actresses\u00a0interviewed for a 2017\u00a0expose of Weinstein\u00a0published in The New Yorker before the Hollywood titan was sentenced to prison time for\u00a0a series of sexual assaults. Weinstein has denied all wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>The actress recounted an encounter in the early &#8217;90s when she met with Weinstein about the film&#8217;s script, and he greeted her in a bathrobe before attempting to put her hands on his genitalia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was fortunate because I was not raped,&#8221; she told the outlet. &#8220;But, boy, was it going there and I paid a price for saying no, and later I paid a price for telling the truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Contributing: Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY<\/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.detroitnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Robledo \u00a0|\u00a0 USA TODAY Network Director\u00a0Quentin Tarantino\u00a0has harsh words for actress\u00a0Rosanna Arquette\u00a0after she criticized his decision to include a racial slur in &#8220;Pulp Fiction.&#8221; Arquette, who played the wife of drug dealer Lance (Eric Stoltz), in Tarantino&#8217;s Oscar-winning cult classic, called the 1994 film great and iconic on &#8220;a lot of levels&#8221; but condemned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2323129,"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":[39915,394406,22220,21751,239390,305246,409807,23427,422349,354372,354378,344542,345533,6297,21741,21993,386471,304614,354373,21739,298114,22020,241909,21912,363824,74947,21738,239343,239420,421637,318878,147314,354374,449676,141071,421638,393037,239344,386472],"class_list":["post-2323128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-affiliate","tag-arquette","tag-arts","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","tag-crime","tag-crime-u0026-mystery-films","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-news-movies","tag-discrimination","tag-discrimination-u0026-identity-relations","tag-drama","tag-drama-films","tag-eamotion","tag-entertainment","tag-films","tag-harvey","tag-harvey-weinstein","tag-identity","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-movie","tag-movie-reference","tag-movies","tag-mystery","tag-negative","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-quentin","tag-quentin-tarantino","tag-reference","tag-relations","tag-rosanna","tag-rosanna-arquette","tag-tarantino","tag-thriller","tag-u0026","tag-weinstein"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Quentin-Tarantino-slams-Rosanna-Arquette-over-Pulp-Fiction-remarks.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323128","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=2323128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323130,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323128\/revisions\/2323130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2323129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}