Quentin Tarantino at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival
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In Quentin Tarantino’s new and probably last film “The Movie Critic”, the director tells the story of a film critic who publishes his texts in a porn magazine. The film will be set in California in the late 1970s, making it a thoroughly American tale. Tarantino probably wants to place a special focus on the authenticity of the actors: according to the director, actors who are not from the States are out of the question for “The Movie Critic”.
“I don’t want to give the role to a Brit,” the Pulp Fiction creator said in a newly released interview. “We live in a really strange time. I think when people look back at that era of cinema and it’s just all these British actors pretending to be Americans and all these Australian actors pretending to be Americans, it strikes me as phantoms. Nobody acts in their own voice anymore,” he continued.
Tarantino made it clear that he had no problem with the British. The development he observed is due to the fact that a handful of British actors have become more famous than their American counterparts. “When I look at ’70s cinema, I want to see Robert DeNiro, then I want to see Al Pacino, then I want to see Stacy Keach,” he added.