Ethan Hawke isn’t fond of the “hateful” way Quentin Tarantino trashed “world-class human being” Paul Dano.

Hawke told Joe Rogan during an appearance on his podcast Thursday that Tarantino “says whatever comes into his mind,” but he was way off with his take on Dano. “Whenever anybody says something hateful, they’re talking about themselves,” he added. Though Tarantino “wouldn’t be a good director if he wasn’t opinionated,” Dano’s performance in There Will Be Blood is “not up for debate,” Hawke said. “He was f---ing great in it.”

Tarantino called Dano’s performance in the 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson film “weak sauce” in an interview on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast. He also took his criticism in a more scathing, personal direction when he added that Dano is “just such a weak, weak, uninter

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