{"id":431529,"date":"2025-12-07T18:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T18:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/431529\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T18:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T18:34:15","slug":"matthew-lillard-reacts-to-quentin-tarantino-diss-it-f-king-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/431529\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Lillard Reacts to Quentin Tarantino Diss: &#8216;It F&#8211;king Sucks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lillard&#8217;s reaction comes after the Kill Bill director cited the actor as someone he doesn&#8217;t &#8220;care for,&#8221; alongside Paul Dano and Owen Wilson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toofab.com\/people\/matthew-lillard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Matthew Lillard;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>Matthew Lillard<\/strong><\/a>, one of <a href=\"https:\/\/toofab.com\/people\/quentin-tarantino\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Quentin Tarantino&#039;s;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> recent targets, is reacting to the director&#8217;s criticism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During an appearance on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/s9e48-top-ten-of-144885070\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast<\/strong><\/a>, the Kill Bill director revealed three actors he simply doesn&#8217;t &#8220;care for,&#8221; after citing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.toofab.com\/people\/paul-thomas-anderson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Paul Thomas Anderson&#039;s;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>Paul Thomas Anderson&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a>\u00a02007 film,\u00a0There Will Be Blood, as one of his top 10 movies of the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/movies\/articles\/quentin-tarantino-reveals-list-actors-185115312.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img alt=\"Getty\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"825\" height=\"611\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/277f3f9a20bbb7e73aef79b549e13346.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quentin Tarantino Reveals List of Actors He Doesn&#8217;t &#8216;Care&#8217; For: &#8216;Weak Sauce&#8217; &#8211; Click image for related story<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It would stand a better chance to be in number one or number two if it didn&#8217;t have a big, giant flaw in it,&#8221; Tarantino, 62, said of\u00a0There Will Be Blood, &#8221;\u00a0&#8230; and the flaw is Paul Dano.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;He&#8217;s just such a weak, weak, uninteresting guy,&#8221; Tarantino added of Dano, before later adding, &#8220;I don&#8217;t care for\u00a0Owen Wilson, I don&#8217;t care for\u00a0Matthew Lillard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While at GalaxyCon in Columbus, Ohio over the weekend, Lillard brought up Tarantino&#8217;s comments in a room packed full of fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Quentin Tarantino this week said he didn&#8217;t like me as an actor,&#8221; said Lillard, which generated boos from the audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Whatever, who gives a s&#8211;t.&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It hurts your feelings, it f&#8211;king sucks and he wouldn&#8217;t say that to Tom Cruise. He wouldn&#8217;t say that to somebody who&#8217;s a top-line actor in Hollywood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;m very popular in this room. I&#8217;m not very popular in Hollywood. Two totally different microcosms,&#8221; he continued, adding, &#8220;So it&#8217;s humbling, and it hurts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As he then took a pause, someone yelled, &#8220;We love you!&#8221; &#8212; with Lillard thanking them for the shoutout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tarantino&#8217;s comment about Lillard comes when the actor &#8212; who first rose to fame in the &#8217;90s and 2000s with roles in\u00a0Scream, the live-action\u00a0Scooby Doo\u00a0movies,\u00a0She&#8217;s All That\u00a0and\u00a0Thirteen Ghosts &#8212; is having a major career resurgence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lillard credits that comeback to his role as the villainous William Afton in 2023&#8217;s\u00a0Five Nights at Freddy&#8217;s\u00a0&#8212; which was a massive hit at the box office, despite a same-day drop on streaming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the wake of that film&#8217;s success came a wave of mainstream projects for Lillard, including roles in the\u00a0Five Nights\u00a0sequel,\u00a0Daredevil\u00a0Season 2 at Disney+,\u00a0Cross\u00a0Season 2 on Prime Video, a Tony Gilroy movie with Pedro Pascal and David Harbour, and two Mike Flanagan projects &#8212;\u00a0The Life of Chuck\u00a0and the upcoming TV adaptation of Stephen King&#8217;s\u00a0Carrie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He&#8217;ll also somehow return in\u00a0Scream 7, despite his character &#8212; and OG killer &#8212; Stu Macher being taken out by a television set in the original movie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TooFab&#8217;s Brian Particelli recently spoke with him about the quasi-comeback, with Lillard calling it a &#8220;crazy&#8221; time in his life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been a really strange moment. I think a lot of it stems from the success of\u00a0Five Nights. I think that sort of reinvigorated my career in a really profound way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;And I&#8217;m here for it,&#8221; he added, &#8220;I&#8217;m excited and just really grateful to get these opportunities again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For Lillard, now 55, with resurgence comes reflection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;For so much of my career, it was always about like, &#8216;What&#8217;s next? What&#8217;s next? What&#8217;s next?&#8217;, climbing this ladder of like a career and success. And as you get older, it&#8217;s nice to every now and then stop and just appreciate how far up you&#8217;ve come,&#8221; he told TooFab. &#8220;Certainly in this moment, where I&#8217;m having all these things happening and having this like resurgence, you can&#8217;t help but to be grateful and just to be here, still working, still doing the thing I love and getting more opportunities than I&#8217;ve ever had.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Check out the full interview with him above.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/www.toofab.com\/photos\/image_jpg_20251203_d6ebca7b4edb45f98f8e70f7f960c7cc\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"TMZ\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"825\" height=\"1238\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ca8d7c5d6a6940c24500db854c72c836.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TooFab&#8217;s Week In Celebrity Photos: November 30 &#8211; December 6 &#8211; Click image to open gallery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lillard&#8217;s reaction comes after the Kill Bill director cited the actor as someone he doesn&#8217;t &#8220;care for,&#8221; alongside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":431530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[200461,185,171,200460,199900,182,105934,29705,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-431529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bret-easton-ellis-podcast","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-kill-bill-director","12":"tag-matthew-lillard","13":"tag-owen-wilson","14":"tag-paul-dano","15":"tag-quentin-tarantino","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115679729093908250","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}