Rosanna Arquette Slams Quentin Tarantino's Overuse of N-Word In His Movies
Rosanna Arquette is looking back at Pulp Fiction — and while she admits the 1994 film is iconic, she says one thing about it still doesn’t sit right with her: the language. In a new interview with The Times U.K., Arquette said she’s tired of Quentin Tarantino repeatedly using the N-word in his movies, calling it “racist and creepy” and saying the director has been given a “hall pass” for it over the years. The criticism isn’t new. Filmmaker Spike Lee blasted Tarantino back in 1997 when Jackie Brown came out, saying the director seemed “infatuated” with the word and that many Black audiences didn’t find it trendy or cool. More recently, director Lee Daniels also pushed back on Tarantino’s defense of the language, arguing that brushing off critics with a “go see something else” attitude wasn’t the right response. But not everyone agrees with the backlash. Samuel L. Jackson — who worked with Tarantino in Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained — has defended the filmmaker, saying Tarantino is simply writing characters the way they would realistically talk and gets unfairly singled out compared to other directors.










