While Quentin Tarantino is genuinely recognized worldwide for his immaculate on-screen works like Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill movie series, he is also quite infamous for a lot of things: like his alleged tyrant-like behaviour on sets and his controversial comments that always come back to him with a backlash. In fact, there was a time when Tarantino was more infamous than famous just because of these few habits of his.
That was the time when the MeToo movement was especially at its peak and actors and actresses from around the globe were speaking out about all the times they had been wronged by other members of the entertainment industry. During that, Quentin Tarantino got exposed for not one but many alleged infamous acts: One of which was his weird ‘foot fetish’ that was blatantly exposed by MeToo activist Rose McGowan.
MeToo Activist Rose McGowan Called Out Quentin Tarantino For His ‘Foot Fetish’
Back in 2018, Quentin Tarantino found himself in a whirlwind of controversy as his earlier notorious acts caught up to him. This included all the alleged infamous stuff he had done with his actors, including his foot fetish by one of his actresses, Rose McGowan.
As per an excerpt from her memoir Brave via The Guardian, the actress shared the filmmaker’s alleged acts:
“Tarantino has a known foot fetish. That means Tarantino paid extra money to j-rk off to my young feet and he told me about it loudly, over and over, for years in front of numerous people, as if I should be so thrilled that he donated his solid-m***********g-gold semen that is clearly better than all the other semen in the world, and he gave it up for little ol’ me? It’s time men realized their semen isn’t all that.”
However, that wasn’t all: Quentin Tarantino was also accused of nearly killing Uma Thurman during the shoot of one of her Kill Bill films along with several other allegations which even included strangling actress Diane Kruger in a scene from his 2009 hit, Inglourious Basterds.
Quentin Tarantino Got Into Trouble For Defending Roman Polanski
One other ‘major’ thing that Quentin Tarantino got into trouble with was defending Roman Polanski’s controversial case. This is what he said in an episode of The Howard Stern Show several years after the incident (via Jezebel):
“He didn’t r-pe a 13-year-old. It was statutory r-pe…he had s-x with a minor. That’s not r-pe. To me, when you use the word r-pe, you’re talking about violent, throwing them down—it’s like one of the most violent crimes in the world. You can’t throw the word r-pe around. It’s like throwing the word ‘racist’ around. It doesn’t apply to everything people use it for.”
Although he later apologized, Quentin Tarantino still has a long way to go to fully clean out all the stains from his star-studded reputation as an incredible filmmaker.
