"Pulp Fiction" star Rosanna Arquetteis speaking out against directorQuentin Tarantino's decision to include a racial slur in the film.
In an interview with the Sunday Timespublished Saturday, March 7,Arquette, 66,blastedTarantinofor the choice, saying that she still has love for the movie but can't stand what she sees as Hollywood's leniencewith the director.
"It's iconic, a great film on a lot of levels. But personally I am over the use of the [slur] – I hate it," she told the outlet. "I cannot stand that [Tarantino] has been given a hall pass."
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"It's not art, it's just racist and creepy," she continued.
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Arquetteplayed Jody, wife to drug dealer Lance (Eric Stoltz), in the 1994 film. Her role, though small, became part of the film'scontinued cult canon lore.
In the interview, the"Desperately Seeking Susan" actressalso said she harbors some resentment for the money she didn't see from the film's release.
"I'm the only person who didn't get a back end [a share of the takings]. Everybody made money except me," she told the Sunday Times. She went on to blame her lack of cuton Harvey Weinstein, the movie's producer, who has since been sentenced to prison time fora series of sexual assaults. Arquette wasamong the actressesinterviewed for a 2017expose of Weinsteinpublished in The New Yorker, which helped pull the curtain back on decades of alleged sexual misconduct perpetrated by the Hollywood titan. Weinstein has denied all wrongdoing.
The actress told the Sunday Times that in the early '90s she met with Weinstein about the film's script and he greeted her in a bathrobe, then attempted to put her hands on his genitalia.
"I was fortunate because I was not raped," she told the outlet. "But, boy, was it going there and I paid a price for saying no, and later I paid a price for telling the truth."
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