Rosanna Arquette who appeared in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction as Jody, the wife of Eric Stoltz’s drug dealer 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 she has long been uncomfortable with the language.
“Personally, I’m over the use of the N-word — I hate it,” she said. “I can’t stand that he got a hall pass. It’s not art, it’s just racist and creepy.”
Arquette’s remarks add to a chorus of voices that have criticized Tarantino’s vocabulary over the years.
Spike Lee famously condemned the director’s use of the snooze Jackie Brown (1997), narrator Black“Quentin is in love with that word. What will he become—an honorary black man?”
In 2022, filmmaker Lee Daniels echoed similar concerns, saying that Tarantino had no right to use the word: “Ten years ago, 15 years ago … I would have flagged it as artistic. But ‘n—–‘ is our word. It’s my word. And you have no right to say it.”
Tarantino himself has defended his scripts, esp Django Unchained (2012) who used snooze dozens of times.
