Here are some photos from Monday night’s LA premiere of The Hateful Eight. I’m including some assorted photos of Quentin Tarantino (with his girlfriend Courtney Hoffman), Samuel L. Jackson, Channing Tatum and Jennifer Jason Leigh. It’s worth noting that many people believe The Hateful Eight could be and will be a big awards contender. Some people believe Sam Jackson and Jennifer Jason Leigh specifically will get some big nominations. We’ll see!
The premiere seemed to go off without a hitch, which is remarkable because the LA police union was making some noise about boycotting and picketing the premiere after Tarantino’s remarks about some police officers being “murderers.” According to media outlets, there were four off-duty cops at the premiere, but they were just working security and they appeared “disinterested” in Tarantino. Meanwhile, Tarantino spoke out about the New York Post’s “reporting” that he had been lying for years about doing jail time in LA county.
Quentin Tarantino has denied claims by the New York Post that he lied about time spent in jail to boost his “tough guy” credentials. In his first public comments on the matter since the tabloid newspaper’s 29 November report, the Oscar-winning film-maker accused reporters of simply failing to do their job.
“I was in jail three different times, the last time was for eight days,” he told presenter Ben Mankiewicz on the TYT Network show What the Flick?! while promoting new movie The Hateful Eight. “Three days one time, two days another time and eight days last time.”
Tarantino added: “They’re just really bad journalists. It would be so easy for them to look [his jail record] up but they’re not actually doing the work that it takes to look it up.”
The Pulp Fiction director, 52, told the Guardian on 7 December that he felt vindicated by the attacks on him by police unions and said he hoped to return to the anti-brutality crusade once his new film had been released. “Right now, [promoting The Hateful Eight] is my full-time job,” he said. “But when this is over, I want to go further with this.”
I suspected as much last week – the NY Post’s story seemed extremely half-assed, and I didn’t see the point in trying to discredit Tarantino by claiming he had been lying this whole time about spending a few days in jail for traffic violations.
Meanwhile, QT and the cast appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night. Here’s a clip of QT talking about the script leak issues & then the cast interviews.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Michael Madsen still produces feelings on me.
Yep. I was just coming down here to see if anyone else felt that way.
Yes, would love to see more of him!!!
“I didn’t see the point in trying to discredit Tarantino by claiming he had been lying this whole time about spending a few days in jail for traffic violations.”
That’s because you’re not from NYC and are unfamiliar with the likes and tactics of The Daily News and The New York Post. And if you do the math, this comes on the heels of Tarantino protesting in NYC and a police chief threatening to try to hurt him economically…and a rag paper with close right-wing ties (Rupert Murdoch, anyone?), with an incentive to keep the status quo by toeing the thin blue line with the “best” of them.
I don’t really care. Go QT. One of the most bizzare aspects of a Bizarre republican candidate competition was that brainless Neurosurgeon being annoyed That people were saying he hadn’t assaulted his Mother, and. Insisting that he had. Because attacking a close relative is such an important quality in A future POTUS.
Talk about a manufactured crisis. Sh*t, if I were trying to get some “street cred,” I wouldn’t do it off some parking tickets. I’d make it some really good reading!
What in tarnation has Jennifer Jason Leigh done to her face?