It’s not even Wednesday, but Quentin Tarantino is likely already having the worst week of his life. The director’s choices during the making of “Kill Bill” which nearly led star Uma Thurman to suffer severe injuries, and his complacency despite knowing what he did about Harvey Weinstein‘s behaviour, have come until a critical eye. Tarantino has explained and defended his actions, however, he might have a harder time with this recent revelation.
Jezebel has unearthed Tarantino’s apperance on “The Howard Stern Show” in 2003, in which he defends director Roman Polanski, who pleaded guilty in 1977 to sexually assaulting 13-year-old Samantha Gailey. It’s stomach-turning stuff with Tarantino claiming that the adolescent “wanted to have it.”
“He didn’t rape a 13-year-old. It was statutory rape…he had sex with a minor. That’s not rape. To me, when you use the word rape, you’re talking about violent, throwing them down—it’s like one of the most violent crimes in the world. You can’t throw the word rape around. It’s like throwing the word ‘racist’ around. It doesn’t apply to everything people use it for,” the director said.
When Robin Quivers points out that Gailey has stated she did not give her consent for the encounter with Polanski, Tarantino doubles down:
Tarantino: No, that was not the case AT ALL. She wanted to have it and dated the guy and—
Quivers: She was 13!
Tarantino: And by the way, we’re talking about America’s morals, not talking about the morals in Europe and everything.
Stern: Wait a minute. If you have sex with a 13-year-old girl and you’re a grown man, you know that that’s wrong.
Quivers: …giving her booze and pills…
Tarantino: Look, she was down with this.
Adding a further twist to all of this, Tarantino’s upcoming film will feature Polanski as a character. The project, which will touch upon the Manson murders, will also feature Polanski’s wife at the time, Sharon Tate, who was brutally killed by Manson’s followers.
Listen to the conversation with Tarantino below.
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He said the thing about Polanski 15 YEARS AGO!!!!!! Can’t he have changed opinion or attitude about the whole thing, especially in these times in which there’s more information??????
This whole thing is absurd in the highest degree. All those 70’s boys were at it – Nicholson Beatty et al. They were just good looking and got away with it! Strange times we live in
It’s impossible for me to defend Polanski, he pled guilty to statutory rape, though when you put the pills and booze into the equation, can you call it statutory rape? I mean how could she consent when he gave her drugs, even if you say, she took the drugs of her own volition, it doesn’t change the fact that she was 13 at the time, so in my book it was rape.
With that said, we are now going to kill Tarantino for his opinon on the matter? This is littearlly a thought crime we are being told by the media to punish him for.
There is a sick mob mentality at play here, one of believe as we believe or we will destroy you, think as we think or we will burn you, act as we act or we will take everything you’ve done and destroy it. This is getting to a point of total insanity. I’m not even going to watch the Oscars this year, because I know it’s going to be prime time vitrue signaling shit show. Everyone is human, every single person hold opinions and attitudes that are not the dour jour of the day. What is happening in this regressive leftist movement is that even if we walk in lock step on 99% issues we will destroy you for 1% where we don’t.
What is alarming is that they went back 15 years to dig this shit up, so any and everything you every said can be used against you, if this continues, anyone with a youtube channel and a blog is fucked because there is something there that will offend someone and we are living in a world where it’s all fair game now. Yesterday I liked coco puffs, thought they were the shit and today I can’t stand the fucking sight of them, don’t people get a chance to change and evolve and fuck up? Don’t people have the right to hold contrary opinons without them beign the epitome of EVIL?