 "Quentin Tarantino faces severe backlash on Twitter after defending Roman Polanski in 2003 interview")
Just as Quentin Tarantino was about to put the ongoing controversy — surrounding him, Uma Thurman and a car crash that happened on the sets of _Kill Bill_ 15 years ago — to rest, the Pulp Fiction director finds himself mired in a fresh one. [caption id=“attachment_4339631” align=“alignnone” width=“825”]  Quentin Tarantino. Image from Twitter/@Variety[/caption] Tarantino was excoriated on social media on Tuesday for remarks he made in a 2003 interview with Howard Stern that resurfaced online recently where he seemingly defends Roman Polanski for having sex with a 13-year-old girl, saying the victim “wanted to have it” and was “down to party” with Polanski.
Here's audio of Quentin Tarantino defending Roman Polanski: 13-year-old girl "wanted to have it" https://t.co/4qkNpbnAVM
— Jezebel (@Jezebel) February 6, 2018
The Django Unchained director was criticised on Twitter as audio surfaced of his remarks concerning Polanski, 84, who has been a fugitive since fleeing to France in 1978 while awaiting sentencing for unlawful sex with a minor in 1975. Polanski pleaded guilty to having unlawful sex with Samantha Geimer, when she was 13. She has said he drugged, raped and sodomised her. Geimer went public about her sexual assault years ago. “She wanted to have it and dated the guy,” Tarantino said in the audio interview. When Stern and his co-host, Robin Quivers, protested, Tarantino replied, “Look, she was down with this.” Many people are also speculating that Polanski will figure as a significant character in Tarantino’s upcoming film about the Manson murders, slated to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the murders, next year. Sharon Tate, who was killed, was married to Polanski. Here are some of the Twitter reactions to Quentin Tarantino’s comments from the audio interview
Dear Hollywood, next time you give Tarantino an award, you are rewarding a pedophile apologist. https://t.co/yEubU98rMs
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) February 6, 2018
Quentin Tarantino has been a hero of mine for most of my life and yet, without hesitation, I've booted him from my highest mental pedestal to the memory dumpster. Boy, bye.
— ally (@missmayn) February 6, 2018
SORRY YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO THIS FUCK QUENTIN TARANTINO YOU ARE FUCKING CANCELLED. https://t.co/ucjMfftBdO
— Busy Philipps (@BusyPhilipps) February 6, 2018
Quentin Tarantino has had to endure more than any man should.....
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) February 6, 2018
Just Kidding! You want to talk about being complicit? Unlike most folks in Hollywood, Quentin actually knew Harvey was a rapist. He did nothing. https://t.co/Q8wB7nO5w6
Oh man. This is gruesome. https://t.co/wqmdxaYyve
— Anthony Rapp SAG-AFTRA National Board Member (@albinokid) February 6, 2018
It wasn't really rape, because 'She was down with it' - Audio of Quentin Tarantino defending rapist Roman Polanksi is really, really, bad https://t.co/c2mPT2zNts pic.twitter.com/50HEy25Eva
— The Cain Gang (@THEHermanCain) February 6, 2018
Quick confession: Quentin Tarantino was always my answer when someone would ask me “who is your favorite filmmaker?”
— Jamie Broadnax (@JamieBroadnax) February 7, 2018
This is no longer the case. I’m super disgusted. And should have been for awhile with N-dropping films but I let it slide. But this Uma thing? Nah he’s canceled.
quentin tarantino has always been one of my fav filmmakers and him being exposed for the trash & rape apologist that he actually is made me disappointed and disgusted but now mostly happy bcs we are finally aware of what a scumbag he really is
— kyra (@phantomthreads) February 6, 2018
Fuck Quentin Tarantino so very much, there is no director more emblematic of the endless opportunities afforded a mediocre white man than him and his ceaseless Nostalgia-Schlock trading in the same casual racism and tedious misogyny without meaningful subversion or reflection
— christa lee (@OhPoorPup) February 7, 2018
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