Quentin Tarantino has apologized for his ’provocative’ defense of Roman Polanski, but is it too late?
Quentin Tarantino’s been talking a lot this week, and that trend isn’t about to end. He first issued a long-winded interview to explain his treatment of Uma Thurman (including the stunt crash, as well as personally spitting upon and choking her as detailed in the script) on the Kill Bill set. As if on cue, someone then dug up his 2003 Howard Stern Show appearance, in which he defended Roman Polanski’s rape of a 13-year-old girl. A few days later, QT is trying to make amends for that, too, 15 years after dropping his opinions on the subject.
The defense in question caused both Stern and Robin Quivers to audibly recoil, and Tarantino is now walking it back. He had called Polanski’s prosecution a “technicality” because he only “had sex with a minor… that’s not rape.” When reminded by Quivers that Polanski drugged victim Samantha Geimer, Tarantino called her a “party girl” and “down with it.” It’s fair to say that this didn’t go over well, and Tarantino has issued an apology through IndieWire:
Tarantino said that he also phoned Geimer to personally apologize, which he felt compelled to do after she responded to his comments. Geimer stated that she was absolutely raped by Polanski, despite Tarantino’s insistence that people “throw the word rape around” too much. Geimer told the New York Daily News, “He was wrong… I hope he doesn’t make an ass out of himself and keep talking that way.” It seems that Tarantino heard her loud and clear.
(Via IndieWire, New York Daily News & The Independent)
