Rosanna Arquette says Quentin Tarantino’s use of the N-word in Pulp Fiction is ‘racist and creepy’ | film

Pulp Fiction and Pulp Fiction star Rosanna Arquette said she found Quentin Tarantino’s use of the N-word in Pulp Fiction “racist and creepy.”

In an interview with The Sunday Times, Arquette said of the film, in which she plays the tattooed and pierced wife of syringe-using drug dealer Eric Stoltz: “It’s an iconic film, a great film on a lot of levels. But personally I’m over using the N-word – I hate it. I can’t stand it.” [Tarantino] He was given a pass to the hall.”

“This is not art, it’s just racist and scary,” she added.

Pulp Fiction, the 1994 film for which Tarantino won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, uses the N-word on multiple occasions, including several times by Jimmy, the character played by Tarantino.

Tarantino has been regularly criticized for his liberal use of the term in subsequent films. In 1997, fellow director Spike Lee said in an interview with Variety: [Tarantino] He was “fascinated by that word,” adding: “What did he want to be — an honorary black man?” Tarantino was later defended by Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown star Samuel L. Jackson, who said at a press conference at the Berlin Film Festival: “It’s not offensive in the context of this film… [Jackie Brown] It’s a very good film noir, and I don’t think Spike has made one of these in a few years.

Following the release of Tarantino’s 2012 thriller Django Unchained, starring Jamie Foxx, Lee again criticized Tarantino, saying on social media: “American slavery wasn’t Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western. It was a holocaust.” Training Day director Antoine Fuqua responded by saying that he did not think Tarantino had a “racist bone in his body.”

Tarantino defended himself in a 2015 interview with Bret Easton Ellis in The New York Times, saying, “In a lot of the uglier cuts, my impulses really come into play in a more negative way. It’s like I’m a supervillain coming up with this stuff.”

In the same interview, Arquette said that she rejected Harvey Weinstein’s sexual advances in the early 1990s, and believed her career was subsequently affected. “I was lucky I wasn’t raped. But boy, was it and I paid the price for my refusal.” Arquette was among the original people to speak out against Weinstein in 2017 reporting in The New York Times and The New Yorker, adding: “She later paid the price for telling the truth.”