Quentin Tarantino has made a name for himself as one of the biggest directors in Hollywood, but his past has been riddled with scandal.
RadarOnline.com can reveal an inside look at the Pulp Fiction director’s biggest offenses, including nearly killing actress Uma Thurman in a dangerous stunt and confessing he was aware of allegations against Harvey Weinstein years before the #MeToo movement rocked Hollywood.
While reflecting on the filming of the 2003 film Kill Bill, one of his biggest hits, the director admitted allowing Thurman to drive a car for a stunt was “one of the biggest regrets of my life.”
Taratino, 62, explained he drove the car in one direction to test it, but when it came time to film the scene with Thurman, he had her drive the car in another direction.
The direction recalled: “I was very happy, thinking, she can totally do this, it won’t be a problem.
“I came in there all happy, telling her she could totally do it, it was a straight line, you will have no problem. Uma’s response was ‘OK.’ Because she believed me. Because she trusted me… I told her it would be safe. And it wasn’t. I was wrong.”
Unfortunately, Tarantino didn’t realize there was a curve in the road, which caused the car to crash and Thurman suffered neck and knee injuries.
Afterward, the actress noted she had concerns about the car, but Tarantino ultimately convinced her to carry on with the scene.
Tarantino later admitted in an interview that he heard “Uma was trepidatious about doing the driving shot” but noted: “None of us ever considered it a stunt. It was just driving. Maybe we should have but we didn’t.”
He added: “Again, that is one of the biggest regrets of my life. As a director, you learn things and sometimes you learn them through horrendous mistakes.
“That was one of my most horrendous mistakes, that I didn’t take the time to run the road, one more time, just to see what I would see.”
The 62-year-old director has also been known for his questionable ties to Weinstein, co-founder of Miramax and The Weinstein Company, which produced several of Taratino’s films.
After several actresses came forward with sexual assault and harassment accusations against Weinstein during the #MeToo movement, Taratino expressed shame and regret for how he handled the allegations before they were made public.
He said: “I knew enough to do more than I did. There was more to it than just the normal rumors, the normal gossip. It wasn’t secondhand. I knew he did a couple of these things.
“I wish I had taken responsibility for what I heard,” he added. “If I had done the work I should have done then, I would have had to not work with him.”