The director addressed the controversy surrounding him following a recent New York Times report.
Quentin Tarantino drew criticism over the weekend following a New York Times article in which Kill Bill star Uma Thurman shared a story of a car crash and subsequent injuries she suffered while filming the 2003 action movie.
Thurman claims that the accident resulted in a concussion and damaged knees.The footage of the crash, which Tarantino provided to Thurman, shows the actress crashing into a palm tree. In a recent interview with Deadline, Tarantino said he knew the Times story was coming and was contacted by both Thurman and Maureen Dowd, the author of the Times piece. “I knew that the piece was happening. Uma and I had talked about it, for a long period of time, deciding how she was going to do it. She wanted clarity on what happened in that car crash, after all these years,” Tarantino said.
The director went on to say that he never met up with Dowd and “ended up taking the hit and taking the heat” when the article published. “I figured that eventually it would be used whenever [Thurman] had her big piece,” Tarantino said of the footage. “Also, there was an element of closure. She had been denied it, from Harvey Weinstein, being able to even see the footage.”
Tarantino recalled the day of the scene, saying that he “none of us ever considered it a stunt. It was just driving.” Thurman, however, said she voiced trepidations to Tarantino about operating the vehicle on a sandy road. “I’m sure I wasn’t in a rage and I wasn’t livid. I didn’t go barging into Uma’s…
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