Kill Bill director Quentin Tarantino did not mince words about what he thinks of actor Paul Dano’s work in There Will Be Blood , the classic 2007 film Dano co-starred in with Daniel Day-Lewis.

The Reservoir Dogs director was counting down his top movies of the century on Bret Easton Ellis’s podcast when he got to fellow director Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood . Tarantino placed the 2007 film in the number five slot on his list, but he also noted that it would have ranked at number one if it weren’t for one thing.

Tarantino said there was one “big flaw” in There Will Be Blood . And it was actor Paul Dano.

Dano played Eli Sunday to Daniel Day-Lewis’ driven and psychotic Daniel Plainview. Tarantino says the film was clearly meant to be a “two-hander” pitting Daniel D

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