Quentin Tarantino Takes a Dig at Ryan Reynolds’ Netflix Movies

[hewontgo]

"I've never seen them. Have you?" Quentin Tarantino couldn't resist taking a dig at Ryan Reynolds' Netflix movies: https://t.co/m4j2vA5i2a pic.twitter.com/G2RJ4pod9m
- Decider (@decider) May 26, 2023

Quentin Tarantino is no fan of movies that are made to exist on streaming platforms. Tarantino criticized films that are made for streamers, saying, “

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he was on a run in Cannes, also took a weird dig at brit actors

[just444]

“Obviously, nothing against the Brits, but we’re living in a really weird time now. I think when people look back on this era of cinema and it’s just all these British actors pretending to be Americans and all these Australian actors pretending to be Americans, it’s like phantoms. Nobody is acting in their own voice.”

Questioned as to why this has come about, he said: “We just happen to be in an era of really, really good British actors who for the most part can pull it off.”

Sure, but what does that say about the American screen actor? “I would say that for the most part the Americans gave up their own ground. I think it’s just a case that a bunch of Brits became more famous than the others. The Americans ceded their own ground. When I look at 70’s cinema I want to see Robert De Niro, I want to see Al Pacino, I want to see Stacy Keach, you know, I want to see people like that reflecting the culture back to me.”

He added: “There are just a lot of good British actors and they’re pretty good at it.”

I argue that Barbara Broccoli would never consider casting a non British actor to play James Bond.

Tarantino hit back, “But then she considered James Brolin at one point when they cast Roger Moore. There was a consideration for James Brolin.”

He sat back then clarified, “By the way, I’m not being xenophobic. The Brits would have a hell of a lot more problems if a bunch of American actors came over there with their Dick Van Dyke [Mary Poppins] accents playing famous Brits. They don’t want to see that shit.”

https://deadline.com/2023/05/quentin-tarantino-new-movie-cannes-breaking-baz-rolling-thunder-1235379542/

Re: he was on a run in Cannes, also took a weird dig at brit actors

[just444]

i also learned from that article that he lives in Tel Aviv with his wife(?) and two(!) kids!

Re: he was on a run in Cannes, also took a weird dig at brit actors

[deerlike]

I mean tbh I did find it weird that the March Sisters in the latest iteration of Little Women were all played by non-Americans (and you could hear it in Saoirse's accent, I don't know what that was supposed to be but mid-19th century American it was not, and Emma Watson was even worse). Not to gatekeep, but was there really no young American female talent to be found?

With the exception of Gwyneth as Emma and Reese as Becky Sharp decades ago, I don't think we really see the reverse happening, where Americans play classic British literary roles like Lizzie Bennett or Jane Eyre.

Re: he was on a run in Cannes, also took a weird dig at brit actors

[kamikashi]

yeah theres an argument to be had about the small pool of people Hollywood looks to cast, and even when it looks like they are "expanding" that pool internationally with brits, it tends to be of the posh sort, no? so its still a very selective pool that overlooks the marginalized.

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[brokencrystal7]

how’s the arts education in the UK and australia? money being put onto the arts at schools in the US is always the first thing to be cut and it has been like that for decades at this point and i feel like part of that must be contributing to this as well

Re: he was on a run in Cannes, also took a weird dig at brit actors

[love_galore]

LOL, the arts education in the UK has been decimated... and has always more or less belonged to the rich.

Re: he was on a run in Cannes, also took a weird dig at brit actors

[musicnkisses]

Hmm ia we use a lot of Brits and Australians for roles that could go to Americans. But also you cast Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate lmao.

Re: he was on a run in Cannes, also took a weird dig at brit actors

[5368f65]

Isn't that a dig on American actors?

Idk I 100% noticed the same thing, but for a totally different reason. I used to learn English from movies, and I used to purposely avoid everything but American content, because eg. British and Australian and other English accents are impossible for my muscles. But like in the past 5-ish years, I try to watch American content, but suddenly the "BRITISH ACCENT" alert goes off in my brain all the time. I don't know, even Americans keep saying how amazing the British actors' accents are, so I do feel shit for even noticing, I wish I could just not notice.