Rosanna Arquette, who appeared in the Quentin Tarantino film. pulp fiction as Jody, the wife of Eric Stoltz’s drug-dealing character Lance, speaks out against the director’s repeated use of the N-word in his films.
In a new interview with The timespraised Arquette pulp fiction as “iconic,” but admitted that she has long felt uncomfortable with his language.
“Personally, I don’t use the N-word anymore; I hate it,” he said. “I can’t stand that they gave it a pass. It’s not art, it’s just racist and creepy.”
Arquette’s comments join a chorus of voices that have criticized Tarantino’s vocabulary over the years.
Spike Lee condemned the director’s use of the insult in Jackie Brown (1997), counting Variety“Quentin is in love with that word. What does he want to be made: an honorary black man?”
In 2022, filmmaker Lee Daniels echoed similar concerns, saying Tarantino had no right to use the word: “Ten years ago, 15 years ago… I would have marked it as artistic. But ‘n—–‘ is our word. That’s my word. And you have no right to say that.”
Tarantino himself has defended his scripts, particularly Django Unchained (2012), who used the insult dozens of times.
