Quentin Tarantino Named Him The ‘Weakest F**king Actor.’ He’s Finally Spoken Out, And It’s Good.

Quentin Tarantino was anything but a “Little Miss Sunshine” when he decided to publicly shred one of that movie’s stars — Paul Dano.

In December, the “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” writer-director slammed Dano’s talent, calling him “the weakest fucking actor in SAG” amongst other pretty crude remarks.

Dano has kept quiet about the brutal bashing, but ahead of a 20th anniversary cast reunion and screening of “Little Miss Sunshine” at the Sundance Film Festival on Wednesday, Dano was asked about Tarantino’s criticism and delivered a pretty great response, Variety reports.

“That was really nice,” Dano told Variety. “I was also incredibly grateful that the world spoke up for me so I didn’t have to.”

Dano’s response comes in stark contrast to the trash Tarantino spat out.

The “Pulp Fiction” filmmaker was ranking what he considered the best movies of the 21st century on author Bret Easton Ellis’s podcast and gave Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 film, “There Will Be Blood,” the No. 5 spot.

The film stars Dano and Daniel Day-Lewis, the latter of whom won an Oscar for his role.

Tarantino went on to say that Anderson’s film would have ranked higher on his list “if it didn’t have a big, giant flaw in it … and the flaw is Paul Dano.”

“[Dano] is weak sauce, man. He is the weak sister. [Daniel Day-Lewis] is eating him [alive]. Austin Butler would have been wonderful in that role. [Dano’s] just such a weak, weak, uninteresting guy,” Tarantino continued. “Daniel Day-Lewis shows that he doesn’t need a strong foil. The movie needs it. He doesn’t need anything. It’s supposed to be a two-hander and it’s not! … you put him with the the weakest fucking actor in SAG? The limpest dick in the world?”

Considering that Dano has been in several beloved and critically acclaimed films, ranging from “Ruby Sparks,” “12 Years a Slave” and “The Batman,” movie fans were pretty perplexed by Tarantino’s ruthless remarks.

Even some famous actors, like Toni Collette, who co-starred with Dano in “Little Miss Sunshine” and Ethan Hawke, who co-starred with him in a Broadway revival of Sam Shepard’s “True West” in 2019, were compelled to stick up for him.

“Paul Dano’s just going about his life. He’s gotta wake up one morning and find out this director just went off on him and saying hateful things,” Hawke said on the Joe Rogan podcast in December. “But anyone who knows Quentin knows he talks, talks, talks, talks, talks. Anybody who knows Paul knows he’s a great, world-class human being. And all this love for Paul is coming out.”

Collette was more direct. When Dano was asked by Variety about Tarantino’s remarks at the “Little Miss Sunshine” reunion, the “Hereditary” star interjected with her own opinion before Dano could reply.

“Are we really going there?” Colette told Variety. “Fuck that guy! He must’ve been high… it was just confusing. Who does that?”