{"id":183252,"date":"2025-12-09T17:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/183252\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T17:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:08:11","slug":"one-of-the-best-actors-of-his-generation-daniel-day-lewis-defends-paul-dano-after-tarantino-criticism-paul-dano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/183252\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018One of the best actors of his generation\u2019: Daniel Day-Lewis defends Paul Dano after Tarantino criticism | Paul Dano"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Dano\u2019s There Will Be Blood co-star Daniel Day-Lewis has defended the actor after he was criticised by Quentin Tarantino<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The director took issue with Dano\u2019s talents while discussing his list of the best films of the century on Bret Easton Ellis\u2019s podcast. Tarantino said he would have moved Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s 2007 drama higher than No 5 had a different actor played preacher Eli Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere Will Be Blood would stand a good chance at being No 1 or 2 if it didn\u2019t have a big, giant flaw in it \u2026 and the flaw is Paul Dano<\/a>,\u201d said Tarantino.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, it\u2019s supposed to be a two-hander, but it\u2019s also drastically obvious that it\u2019s not a two-hander. [Dano] is weak sauce, man. He is the weak sister. Austin Butler would have been wonderful in that role. He\u2019s just such a weak, weak, uninteresting guy. The weakest fucking actor in SAG.\u201d<\/p>\n

Day-Lewis, who suggested Dano for the role after the original actor dropped out at short notice, posted on Instagram saying: \u201cPaul Dano is one of the best and most talented actors of his generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dano and Day-Lewis had previously worked together on 2005 film The Ballad of Jack and Rose.<\/p>\n

Numerous film industry names have also showed support for Dano, with Ben Stiller posting that Dano \u201cis fucking brilliant\u201d, while The Batman director Matt Reeves called him \u201can incredible actor, and an incredible person\u201d.<\/p>\n

Dillon Freasier, who played Day-Lewis\u2019s adopted son in There Will Be Blood told TMZ the film is \u201cperfect,\u201d adding: \u201cIt\u2019s a work of art. And it\u2019s that way because everyone was perfectly cast.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others have flagged Dano\u2019s prowess as a director, urging people to seek out his 2018 film Wildlife<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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On Monday it was announced Dano would join Javier Bardem and Pen\u00e9lope Cruz in the cast of Bunker, a thriller from The Son writer-director Florian Zeller.<\/p>\n

Tarantino also said he \u201cdidn\u2019t care for\u201d the actors Owen Wilson and Matthew Lillard on the podcast. Speaking at a GalaxyCon event in Ohio, Lillard said such criticism \u201churts your feelings\u201d.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cIt fucking 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. I\u2019m very popular in this room. I\u2019m not very popular in Hollywood. Two totally different microcosms, right? And so, you know, it\u2019s humbling, and it hurts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Dano\u2019s There Will Be Blood co-star Daniel Day-Lewis has defended the actor after he was criticised by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-183252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}