“Heat Vision Reeves, who directed Dano in “The Batman,” calls him “an incredible actor, and an incredible person.” Paul Dano Aldara Zarraoa/Getty Images Logo text Riddle me this: which A-list director thinks Paul Dano is “incredible?” Not Quentin Tarantino. But there are certainly quite a few. One of them going public with his praise is”, — write: www.hollywoodreporter.com
Reeves, who directed Dano in “The Batman,” calls him “an incredible actor, and an incredible person.”
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Riddle me this: which A-list director thinks Paul Dano is “incredible?” Not Quentin Tarantino. But there are certainly quite a few. One of them going public with his praise is Matt Reeves, who directed Dano in the 2022 hit The Batman.
“Paul Dano is an incredible actor, and an incredible person,” Reeves wrote on X Thursday, a few days after a viral podcast appearance in which Tarantino said that Dano’s performance in There Will Be Blood lowered his opinion of the movie, which starred Daniel Day-Lewis in an Oscar-winning performance.
During an appearance on The Bret Easton Ellis PodcastTarantino ranked his best movies of the 21st century, and named the 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson feature his No. 5 of the movie. He said it “would stand a better chance to be in number one or number two if it didn’t have a big giant flaw in it.”
“And the flaw is Paul Dano,” Tarantino said. “Obviously, it’s supposed to be a two-hander, and it’s also so drastically obvious that it’s not a two-hander. … He is weak sauce, man. He’s a weak sister.”
Dano, who played Edward Nasthon/The Riddler in Reeves’ The Batmanhas turned in performances for a number of top directors, including Steven Speilberg and Denis Villeneuve.
“I’m not saying he’s giving a terrible performance,” Tarantino added of Dano’s work in There Will Be Blood. “I’m saying he’s giving a non-entity [performance]. I don’t care for him. I don’t care for Owen Wilson, I don’t care for Matthew Lillard.”
Reeves is gearing up to shoot The Batman Part IIwith Scarlett Johansson joining the cast in an undisclosed role.
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