Daniel DayLewis Supports Paul Dano After Quentin Tarantino Slams His "There Will Be Blood" Costar Tommy McArdleDecember 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM 0 Kate Green/Getty; Andreas Rentz/Getty; Kevin Winter/Getty Daniel DayLewis on Oct. 15, 2025; Paul Dano on Feb. 21, 2024; Quentin Tarantino on Sept. 28, 2025 Daniel DayLewis offered support for Paul Dano through his representatives after Quentin Tarantino's bashed Dano's performance in 2007's There Will Be Blood DayLewis and Dano costarred in There Will Be Blood and also acted together in the 2005 movie The Ballad of Jack and Rose Ben Stiller, Simu Liu, Al...
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Tommy McArdleDecember 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Daniel Day-Lewis offered support for Paul Dano through his representatives after Quentin Tarantino's bashed Dano's performance in 2007's There Will Be Blood
Day-Lewis and Dano costarred in There Will Be Blood and also acted together in the 2005 movie The Ballad of Jack and Rose
Ben Stiller, Simu Liu, Alec Baldwin and Josh Gad have all praised Dano after Tarantino's comments
Daniel Day-Lewis is backing his There Will Be Blood costar Paul Dano after Quentin Tarantino called the younger actor "a big giant flaw" in the Oscar-winning film.
Tarantino, 62, shocked many in Hollywood when he bashed Dano's acting in Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 film during a December discussion on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast.
A number of actors have since spoken out in support of Dano, including now Day-Lewis, 68.
After a fan-ran Instagram account purporting to be Day-Lewis posted, "Paul Dano is one of the best and most talented actors of his generation, The Guardian reached out to the three-time Academy Award winner's representative, who confirmed to the outlet that Day-Lewis "endorsed the sentiment."
PEOPLE is out to the actor's rep for comment.
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Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano in There Will Be Blood
Before making There Will Be Blood, Dano and Day-Lewis worked together on the 2005 movie The Ballad of Jack and Rose, which was written and directed by Day-Lewis' wife Rebecca Miller.
On The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, Tarantino criticized Dano's performance in There Will Be Blood as "a big giant flaw in" the movie, which he otherwise characterized as his fifth-favorite movie of the last 25 years. "I'm not saying he's giving a terrible performance," Tarantino said. "I'm saying he's giving a non-entity [performance]. I don't care for him."
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Melinda Sue Gordon/Paramount Paul Dano in There Will Be Blood
Actors like Ben Stiller, Simu Liu, Alec Baldwin and Josh Gad have offered support for Dano on social media in recent days, as did Colleen Foy, who played Dano's sister in There Will Be Blood. On Dec. 4, Foy wrote on Threads that Dano's "incredible performance speaks for itself" and claimed that Tarantino himself "was legit vibing with Paul's performance" when Tarantino attended a screening for the movie with its cast upon its release in 2007.
During that podcast appearance, Tarantino also named Owen Wilson as an actor he "really can't stand," even while naming Wilson's 2011 movie Midnight in Paris his 10th favorite film of the century so far.
Tarantino also described actor Matthew Lillard as someone he does not "care for," a comment that Lillard, 55, said "f------- sucks" in response during a convention appearance days later.
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