Antonio Banderasis coming toQuentin Tarantino‘s defense.
The actor, 59, spoke toThe Independentabout backlash Tarantino, 56, is facing over his most recent filmOnce Upon a Time… in Hollywood.
“I think an artist should be free. Then people should be free to agree or disagree,” Banderas said. “You have the freedom to continue watching his movies or not.”
Likewise, if audiences dislike the direction Tarantino takes a film, “[You can say] ‘I will never go and see a movie from Tarantino again,'” Banderas said.
“Or, ‘I love his movies and I’m gonna go and see them again,'” he continued. “I think we should respect that freedom.”
Banderas isn’t a stranger to disliking certain things in film, saying, “There are sometimes things in art that, I have to tell you, they bother me … but I will never, never, never censor them.”
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Lee’s daughter, Shannon,expressed her disappointmentin her father’s portrayal tellingThe Wrapin July, “He comes across as an arrogant a-hole who was full of hot air and not someone who had to fight triple as hard as any of those people did to accomplish what was naturally given to so many others.”
“It was really uncomfortable to sit in the theater and listen to people laugh at my father,” she continued. “Here, he’s the one with all the puffery and he’s the one challengingBrad Pitt. Which is not how he was.”
Tarantinodefended the filmand his depiction of Lee during a press conference in Russia earlier this month.
“The way he was talking, I didn’t just make a lot of that up,” Tarantino said. “I heard him say things like that, to that effect. If people are saying, ‘Well he never said he could beat up Muhammad Ali,’ well yeah, he did. Not only did he say that, but his wife, Linda Lee, said that in her first biography I ever read … She absolutely said it.”
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywoodis now playing.
source: people.com
