{"id":331216,"date":"2025-12-05T02:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/331216\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T02:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:59:07","slug":"paul-dano-defended-by-matt-reeves-after-quentin-tarantino-diss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/331216\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Dano Defended by Matt Reeves After Quentin Tarantino Diss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tRiddle me this: which A-list director thinks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/paul-dano\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paul-dano_1\" data-tag=\"paul-dano\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Dano<\/a> is \u201cincredible?\u201d Not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/quentin-tarantino\/\" id=\"auto-tag_quentin-tarantino_1\" data-tag=\"quentin-tarantino\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quentin Tarantino<\/a>. But there are assuredly quite a few. One of them going public with his praise is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/matt-reeves\/\" id=\"auto-tag_matt-reeves_1\" data-tag=\"matt-reeves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Reeves<\/a>, who directed Dano in the 2022 hit The Batman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cPaul Dano is an incredible actor, and an incredible person,\u201d Reeves wrote on X Thursday, a few days after a viral podcast appearance in which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/quentin-tarantino-paul-dano-weakest-actor-there-will-be-blood-1236441966\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Tarantino said that Dano\u2019s performance<\/a> in There Will Be Blood lowered his opinion of the movie, which starred Daniel Day-Lewis in an Oscar-winning performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDuring an appearance on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, Tarantino ranked his best movies of the 21st century, and named the 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson feature his No. 5 of movie. He said it \u201cwould stand a better chance to be in number one or number two if it didn\u2019t have a big giant flaw in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cAnd the flaw is Paul Dano,\u201d Tarantino said. \u201cObviously, it\u2019s supposed to be a two-hander, and it\u2019s also so drastically obvious that it\u2019s not a two-hander. \u2026 He is weak sauce, man. He\u2019s a weak sister.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDano, who played Edward Nasthon\/The Riddler in Reeves\u2019 The Batman, has turned in performances for a number of top directors, including Steven Speilberg and Denis Villeneuve. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m not saying he\u2019s giving a terrible performance,\u201d Tarantino added of Dano\u2019s work in There Will Be Blood. \u201cI\u2019m saying he\u2019s giving a non-entity [performance]. I don\u2019t care for him. I don\u2019t care for\u00a0Owen Wilson, I don\u2019t care for\u00a0Matthew Lillard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tReeves is gearing up to shoot The Batman Part II, with Scarlett Johansson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/scarlett-johansson-in-final-talks-to-join-the-batman-1235856090\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">joining the cast<\/a> in an undisclosed role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Riddle me this: which A-list director thinks Paul Dano is \u201cincredible?\u201d Not Quentin Tarantino. 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