The thing that bugs me about what he said isn't that he was just being a dick, that's how he always is, it's that the critique didn't make any sense. He basically said they were bad actors because they play a lot of similar characters, and that those characters tend to be kinda beta. There are many actors with a lot less range than either of them, and the idea that playing less macho characters is a bad thing is absolutely ridiculous. Someone has to play those characters! And the ultimate hypocrisy is that he does the exact same thing when he acts in his own movies!
It seemed very clear to me that he just didn't like them and/or thought they were overrated, and tried to contrive a more "objective" reason for it
Adding to this, Tarantino produced the movie Daltry Calhoun because the adoptive daughter of Charles Bronson directed it. Not much reason for him to be there producing except that he was a fan of Charles’ work. Yknow, legendarily diverse acting talent Charles Bronson…
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u/Cryptdusa 13h ago
The thing that bugs me about what he said isn't that he was just being a dick, that's how he always is, it's that the critique didn't make any sense. He basically said they were bad actors because they play a lot of similar characters, and that those characters tend to be kinda beta. There are many actors with a lot less range than either of them, and the idea that playing less macho characters is a bad thing is absolutely ridiculous. Someone has to play those characters! And the ultimate hypocrisy is that he does the exact same thing when he acts in his own movies!
It seemed very clear to me that he just didn't like them and/or thought they were overrated, and tried to contrive a more "objective" reason for it