The 54-year-old’s last two movies – Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight – received criticism upon release for the frequent use of the N-word, with some movie fans accusing him of racism.
Now in an unearthed interview from The Hateful Eight’s release last year, Tarantino regular Samuel L Jackson has defended the filmmaker’s work.
Speaking on Charlie Rose, he said: “He [Quentin] has enough problem being vilified himself as a racist because he uses n***** in his scripts that much, or puts those kinds of words in a character’s mouth.
Jackson continued: “I always tell people…I can’t understand why they can’t look at his work and realise that every character he’s given me has pretty much been the smartest character in the film.
“[They] have the most dignity and respect and kinda runs things…not a fool of any sort and understands a whole lot of what’s going on in life and in the world.
“For [Quentin] to write characters like that for me would be impossible for a racist to do.”
The actor previously defended Tarantino back in 2013, when Django Unchained was released.
He says, “Did they have another name to call the [black] people they were talking about at the time?
“If you’re going to deal with the language of the time, you deal with the language of the time.
“And that was the language of the time. I grew up in the South. I heard ’n*****’ all my life. I’m not disturbed by it.”
The two recent films were set before and after the American Civil War, with Jackson portraying a house slave in Django Unchained and a bounty hunter in The Hateful Eight.
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