{"id":171960,"date":"2025-12-07T07:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/171960\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T07:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:48:12","slug":"matthew-lillard-felt-hurt-by-quentin-tarantinos-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/171960\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Lillard Felt \u2018Hurt\u2019 by Quentin Tarantino\u2019s Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fc601194ab93feb63111414a2857f40dc9-matthew-lillard.rsquare.w330.jpg\" class=\"lede-image\" data-content-img=\"\" alt=\"US-ENTERTAINMENT-FILM\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>\n                  Photo: Patrick T. Fallon\/AFP via Getty Images\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmiuq09ub000i0ieflgr9ch87@published\" data-word-count=\"156\">And then he came for cult classic actors. In addition to insulting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/hollywood-defends-paul-dano-quentin-tarantino.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Dano<\/a> this week on a podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/hollywood-defends-paul-dano-quentin-tarantino.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quentin Tarantino<\/a> also shared his distaste for beloved horror actor Matthew Lillard. On an episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/breteastonellispodcast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast<\/a>, Tarantino said he didn\u2019t \u201ccare for\u201d Lillard and Owen Wilson as actors, seemingly throwing in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/review-sigh-five-nights-at-freddys-2-is-also-about-trauma.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s<\/a> star\u2019s name in for no reason. Lillard is the first celeb name dropped on the podcast to respond during a Q&amp;A at GalaxyCon in Ohio, and he wasn\u2019t happy about the comments. \u201cQuentin Tarantino this week said he didn\u2019t like me as an actor,\u201d Lillard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@little_spooks\/video\/7580649267354717471?_r=1&amp;_t=ZP-920BrAO8mVT\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">began<\/a> as the GalaxyCon crowd booed the mention of Tarantino. \u201cIt hurts your feelings. It fucking sucks. He wouldn\u2019t say that to Tom Cruise. He wouldn\u2019t say that to somebody who\u2019s a top-line actor. I\u2019m very popular in this room, I\u2019m not very popular in Hollywood\u2026 It\u2019s humbling, and it hurts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmiur669w001u3b74awsos4zw@published\" data-word-count=\"134\">He wasn\u2019t the only Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s actor insulted by Tarantino. During the same podcast, the director said The Hunger Games series \u201cripped off\u201d the Japanese novel Battle Royale. \u201cI do not understand how the Japanese writer didn\u2019t sue Suzanne Collins for every fucking thing she owns,\u201d Tarantino stated. \u201cThey just ripped off the fucking book! Stupid book critics are not going to go watch a Japanese movie called Battle Royale, so the stupid book critics never called her out on it.\u201d Josh Hutcherson, who starred as Peeta in THG, told <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/josh-hutcherson-shrugs-off-tarantino-hunger-games-ripoff-1236599274\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a>, \u201cThere are similar themes, for sure. But, you know, everyone borrows from everyone.\u201d Hot tip for Quentin: do not go into any haunted pizzerias for the time being, especially if they have animatronics. Those robots have a tendency to seek revenge.<\/p>\n<p>  Related<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Patrick T. Fallon\/AFP via Getty Images And then he came for cult classic actors. 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