The following sentence may cause psychic damage, and I cannot be held responsible for any injuries obtained from grimacing too hard. Quentin Tarantino went on Bret Easton Ellis’s Patreon-exclusive podcast and started talking shit about Paul Dano. Are you okay? I know that’s a lot to take in. Let’s discuss.
Tarantino appeared on Tuesday’s episode of Ellis’s podcast to share his list of the 20 best films of the 21st century. While the top spot went to Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down , the director said There Will Be Blood could easily have taken its place if not for “a big giant flaw in it, and the flaw is Paul Dano.”
According to Tarantino, Dano’s performance as the twins Paul and Eli Sunday isn’t up to snuff with Daniel Day-Lewis’s career-defining work as Daniel Plainview. “Obviously,

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