Tijdens de persconferentie van Once Upon a Time in Hollywood op het festival van Cannes werd regisseur Quentin Tarantino gevraagd naar Margot Robbie’s beperkte rol in de film. Volgens een journaliste had ze veel minder tekst dan haar tegenspelers Leonardo DiCaprio en Brad Pitt.

“Ik verwerp je hypothese,” antwoordde Tarantino bot. De beelden zijn viraal gegaan en bijgevolg werd de discussie over zijn aanpak van vrouwen opnieuw aangewakkerd.

Enerzijds werd verwezen naar de dynamische vrouwelijke personages in zijn films zoals Jackie Brown en de Bride uit Kill Bill en anderzijds werd opgemerkt dat goeie vrouwelijke personages schrijven niet hetzelfde is als vrouwen in het echt behandelen met respect.

https://twitter.com/dj_diabeatic/status/1131361677000269824

I'm not a huge Tarantino fan but this is an unbelievably stupid criticism. Tarantino made a two volume action film with a female lead. He made Jackie Brown with a female lead. Some of his most iconic characters have been females. So there are fewer females in this one. Who cares? https://t.co/YHSfnOzR7K

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) May 23, 2019

Amazing. Clearly the reporter was attempting to accuse Tarantino of deliberately writing a weak female character and he shuts her down, rightly so. This man wrote Kill Bill, and Jackie Brown remember?

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— Paul Blake (@ThatPaulBlake) May 22, 2019

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Tarantino has written a number of substantial female roles, so by all means argue with people who say otherwise, but just so we're clear on this, Kerry Washington's character in DJANGO UNCHAINED is not a case for the defence.

— Guy Lodge (@GuyLodge) May 23, 2019

A little late on this, but:

Quentin Tarantino has written substantial roles for women in the past.

Does that give him a free pass for being unprofessional to a female journalist who's only doing her job? No.

— Matthew St.Clair (@filmguy619) May 23, 2019

Fixed- When @fnayeri asked him why @MargotRobbie had so few lines he said: “I reject your hypothesis”
You cannot reject her hypothesis.https://t.co/lFKXjzseS9

— Melissa Silverstein (@melsil) May 23, 2019

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Bron: IndieWire