{"id":439625,"date":"2026-01-28T23:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/439625\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T23:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:13:11","slug":"matthew-lillard-says-support-after-tarantino-insult-was-like-living-through-your-own-wake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/439625\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Lillard says support after Tarantino insult was “like living through your own wake”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did Quentin Tarantino have any idea how far his shady comments about Paul Dano, Owen Wilson, and Matthew Lillard would echo? It\u2019s hard to say. What is certain is that a huge swath of Hollywood<\/a> has declared their allegiance to the actors and spoken out about what awesome, good guys they are, which was a dizzying experience in and of itself, as Lillard now reflects. In fact, \u201cIt was like living through your own wake,\u201d as he says in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shortly after Tarantino\u2019s comments went viral, Lillard said<\/a>, \u201cthat hurts your feelings. It fuckin\u2019 sucks. And you wouldn\u2019t say that to Tom Cruise. You wouldn\u2019t say that to somebody who\u2019s a top-line actor in Hollywood.\u201d The subsequent outpouring of support was the opposite of that experience. \u201cAll those R.I.P. emails or tweets and Instagram posts and TikToks, all of the things we see after somebody passes are so sweet. And the reality is I just got to live through all of it firsthand \u2014 alive and kicking!\u201d he says now. \u201cI can\u2019t imagine a more lovely reaction to what happened.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Though Lillard already had a bunch of projects lined up, like a return to the Scream franchise and a role in Daredevil: Born Again<\/a>, the attention also brought new, profitable opportunities, like a gig in a Ryan Reynold Mint Mobile ad. \u201cIt was crazy. I keep showing it to my wife to convince her that I am worthy, that people still like me. I am a piece of ass!\u201d he quips now. \u201cNobody has to like me,\u201d he acknowledges. \u201cNobody has to like any actor out there, obviously. It\u2019s personal preference. I am not everyone\u2019s first choice, that is obvious, but to then have that kind of reaction was beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did Quentin Tarantino have any idea how far his shady comments about Paul Dano, Owen Wilson, and Matthew…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-439625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}