Paul Dano has put together quite the commendable filmography over the years, from "Prisoners" to "Ruby Sparks" to "The Batman" to "The Fabelmans" — which is why it was so surprising that the widely liked and deeply respected actor was on the receiving end of some pretty disparaging recent comments from director Quentin Tarantino.
During a December 2025 appearance on “The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast,”, the "Pulp Fiction" filmmaker criticized Dano's performance in the Paul Thomas Anderson classic "There Will Be Blood" (for which Dano deservedly received a BAFTA Award nod), calling him "such a weak, weak, uninteresting guy."
