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PEOPLE & ARTS Thursday 8 February 2018
Amid controversy, Tarantino

expresses regret over Thurman

By JOCELYN NOVECK how there was a turn that 1978 while awaiting sen-
NEW YORK (AP) — Director he didn't expect. tencing for unlawful sex
Quentin Tarantino has re- "I didn't force her into the with a minor in 1975.
sponded to Uma Thurman's car," he told Deadline. "She "She wanted to have it and
allegation that he put her got into it because she dated the guy," Tarantino
life in danger with a dan- trusted me. And she be- says in the audio interview.
gerous car stunt on "Kill Bill," lieved me." He said seeing When Stern and his co-host,
calling the incident "the the crash was "just horrible Robin Quivers, protest, Tar-
biggest regret of my life." ... It was heartbreaking." He antino replies, "Look, she
But just as he was making called it "the biggest regret was down with this."
amends for that incident of my life." Some were noting on Tues-
— and trying to explain it A representative for Taran- day that Polanski will figure
— the director was being tino has not responded to as a significant charac-
excoriated on social me- two requests for comment ter in Tarantino's upcom-
dia Tuesday for remarks he from the Associated Press. ing film about the Manson
made in a 2003 interview Thurman spoke out again murders, slated to coincide
with Howard Stern that re- Monday on Instagram, re- with the 50th anniversary of In this Sept. 29, 2003 file photo, director of the film "Kill Bill: Vol-
surfaced online, seemingly posting the crash video the murders next year. Sha- ume 1," Quentin Tarantino, left, and actress Uma Thurman arrive
defending Roman Polan- and acknowledging that ron Tate, who was killed, at the premiere of the film in Los Angeles. Associated Press
ski for having sex with a Tarantino "was deeply re- was married to Polanski.
13-year-old girl, saying the gretful and remains re- Polanski pleaded guilty to said he drugged, raped typically name victims of
victim "wanted to have it" morseful about this sorry having unlawful sex with and sodomized her. The sex abuse, but Geimer
and was "down to party" event, and gave me the the girl, Samantha Geimer, Associated Press does not went public years ago.q
with Polanski. footage years later so I when she was 13. She has
The incident involving Thur- could expose it and let it
man became public on see the light of day ... I am
Saturday, in a New York proud of him for doing the
Times column in which the right thing and for his cour-
actress, while also making age." She said she held the
sexual misconduct allega- film's producers and "the
tions against Harvey Wein- notorious Harvey Weinstein"
stein, recounted Tarantino's responsible for covering up
persuading her to drive and refusing to give her
a car on the Mexico set the video for years. "They
that she had been warned lied, destroyed evidence,
might be faulty. and continue to lie about
Thurman told columnist the permanent harm they
Maureen Dowd that she'd caused and then chose
expressed fear before- to suppress," the actress
hand, and asked that a wrote.
stunt driver do it instead. It wasn't just the car inci-
An irritated Tarantino con- dent that called Tarantino's
vinced her to do it, she behavior into question;
said, and she crashed into Thurman also said the di-
a tree, suffering what she rector himself both spit on
said was permanent neck her and choked her during
damage, a concussion scenes where it was called
and damage to her knees. for in the script. Tarantino
Video that Thurman provid- explained to Deadline that
ed the Times — provided he spit on Thurman himself
to her by Tarantino him- because he felt he could
self — shows her struggling do accomplish it more ef-
to control the car before ficiently than actor Michael
crashing, and then being Madsen, and that it was
lifted out of the vehicle. Thurman's idea that he
In an interview with Dead- choke her. "I can act all
line published Monday, strangle-ey, but if you want
Tarantino disputed some of my face to get red and the
the details in the Times ac- tears to come to my eye,
count but said he had in- then you kind of need to
deed persuaded Thurman choke me," Tarantino ex-
to drive the car, although plained.
not as angrily as described. The director was also get-
He said he had driven the ting severely criticized on
road himself and it had Twitter on Tuesday as au-
seemed totally straight, but dio surfaced of his remarks
that a decision was made concerning Polanski, 84,
for Thurman to drive it in the who has been a fugitive
other direction, and some- since fleeing to France in