{"id":336057,"date":"2025-12-08T01:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/336057\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T01:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:10:07","slug":"matthew-lillard-breaks-silence-after-quentin-tarantino-criticizes-acting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/336057\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Lillard Breaks Silence After Quentin Tarantino Criticizes Acting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew Lillard<\/a> is breaking his silence after famed director Quentin Tarantino<\/a> criticized his abilities as an actor.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuentin Tarantino this week said he didn\u2019t like me as an actor,\u201d Lillard could be heard saying on Friday, December 5, while appearing at GalaxyCon in Columbus, Ohio, per footage shared from the event, prompting boos from the crowd, per Entertainment Weekly<\/a>. \u201cEh, whatever. Who gives a s***.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the crowd quieted, Lillard admitted, \u201cIt hurts your feelings. It f***ing 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. So it\u2019s humbling, and it hurts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lillard\u2019s comments come days after Tarantino, 62, appeared in a recent episode of \u201cThe Bet Easton Ellis Podcast,\u201d revealing his top 10 movies of the 21st century and, in turn, his least favorite actors.<\/p>\n

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After naming iconic method actor Daniel Day-Lewis<\/a>\u2019 There Will Be Blood as his No. 5 film of the century, Tarantino slammed Day-Lewis\u2019 former costar, Paul Dano<\/a>, claiming he is \u201cthe weakest male actor in SAG.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c[Dano is] just such a weak, weak, uninteresting guy. \u2026 Daniel Day-Lewis shows that he doesn\u2019t need [a powerful onscreen foe]. He doesn\u2019t need anything,\u201d Tarantino complained at the time \u201cThe movie would\u2019ve had more \u2014 there would\u2019ve been more stringiness to the beef. And again, it\u2019s supposed to be a two-hander, and it\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dano played twin brothers Paul and Eli Sunday in the 2007 film, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The period drama starred Day-Lewis as a miner-turned-oilman who travels to California during the state\u2019s oil boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, delivering the iconic line, \u201cI drink your milkshake, I drink it up\u201d while describing just how the ruthless oil business works.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, it\u2019s supposed to be a two-hander, and it\u2019s also so drastically obvious that it\u2019s not a two-hander,\u201d Tarantino said of the film during the same podcast episode. \u201c[Dano] is weak sauce, man. He\u2019s a weak sister.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tarantino then turned his sights on a slew of other actors, including Lillard, who did not appear in any of the director\u2019s top 10 films.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t care for [Dano], I don\u2019t care for Owen Wilson<\/a>, and I don\u2019t care for Matthew Lillard,\u201d the filmmaker said.<\/p>\n

As for Wilson, Tarantino took issue with Wilson\u2019s role<\/a> in Woody Allen<\/a>\u2019s Midnight in Paris.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI spent the first time watching the movie loving it and hating him,\u201d Tarantino said of Wilson\u2019s performance. \u201cThe second time I watched the movie, I was like, \u2018Ah, OK, don\u2019t be such a price. He\u2019s not so bad. He\u2019s not so bad.\u201d And then the third time I watched it, I found myself watching him.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the film, Wilson, 57, plays a screenwriter and aspiring novelist struggling with his relationship with his materialistic fianc\u00e9e (Rachel McAdams) while on vacation in Paris. As Wilson\u2019s character is working through his struggles, he is transported back through time every night to the 1920s, where he converses with real-life artists like Ernest Hemingway (Corey Stoll) and Salvador Dal\u00ed (Adrien Brody).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe surrealists were really funny. I like the idea that he\u2019s trying to describe his time-travel thing to them, and it\u2019s the only people who completely get it,\u201d Tarantino said of the film\u2019s plot. \u201cWell, of course you get it, you\u2019re surrealists!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Lillard is breaking his silence after famed director Quentin Tarantino criticized his abilities as an actor. \u201cQuentin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,91,87901,88,206,17716],"class_list":["post-336057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-celebrity-scandals","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-scandal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}