Quentin Tarantino might even see Paul Dano as “weak sauce,” however loads of Hollywood heavyweights, together with Daniel Day-Lewis, couldn’t disagree extra.
Last week, throughout an look on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, the Oscar-winning auteur, 62, issued a scathing evaluation of Dano’s efficiency in Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 Western thriller There Will Be Blood.
Labeling the 41-year-old actor the film’s “huge, big flaw,” Tarantino mentioned: “He is simply such a weak, weak, uninteresting man. The weakest f***ing actor in SAG.”
Immediately after the Django Unchained filmmaker’s unsparing remarks, quite a few high-profile stars got here out in help of Dano, heaping reward on him and arguing that he’s “unimaginable,” “good,” and “among the finest actors of our time.”
An Instagram account purporting to be Day-Lewis posted on Tuesday that “Paul Dano is without doubt one of the greatest and most proficient actors of his era.” Representatives for the record-holding three-time Oscar winner knowledgeable The Guardian that the account was fan-run, however maintained that the British actor endorsed the feelings.
Day-Lewis, who led There Will Be Blood, advisable Dano for the a part of Eli Sunday after the unique actor all of the sudden dropped out.
Meanwhile, Ben Stiller, who directed Dano within the 2018 collection Escape at Dannemora, wrote on X: “Paul Dano is f***ing good.”
Marvel’s Simu Liu agreed, commenting in a separate X publish: “idk man i believe paul dano is an unimaginable actor.”
Reese Witherspoon, Dano’s former Inherent Vice co-star, added on Threads: “Paul Dano is an extremely gifted, versatile actor. More importantly, he’s a gentleman.”
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Also taking to X, Matt Reeves, the director of the Robert Pattinson-led The Batman, by which Dano appeared because the psychotic supervillain The Riddler, labeled him “an unimaginable actor, and an unimaginable individual.”
Mattson Tomlin, the co-writer on Reeves’s forthcoming The Batman sequel, which is predicted to see Dano reprise his position, added: “I’m actually happy to see so many individuals cheer on Paul Dano this week. Not solely is he a terrific actor, however he’s an astonishing director who exudes management and large empathy.”
On Threads, Frozen actor Josh Gad went as far as to name Dano “among the finest actors of our time. Full cease.”
“I simply wish to say I like Paul Dano,” Alec Baldwin acknowledged in a latest Instagram video. “And for those who don’t love Paul Dano, shh.”
Actor Colleen Foy, who portrayed Dano’s sister in There Will Be Blood, wrote on Threads that her co-star’s “unimaginable efficiency speaks for itself.”
“I sat behind Quentin Tarantino on the Cast & Crew screening and he was legit vibing with Paul’s efficiency,” Foy claimed within the publish. “His latest feedback are incongruent along with his response that night time.”
Dano is an acclaimed actor, greatest recognized for performances in movies reminiscent of Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Meek’s Cutoff (2010) and The Fabelmans (2022). Up subsequent, he stars in Olivier Assayas’s new political thriller The Wizard of Kremlin, alongside Jude Law.
