Since then, various actors and directors and other Hollywood professionals have publicly defended Dano's acting chops. I find this to be another amusing example of Hollywood's adoration of itself which cannot abide even the tiniest crack in the mirror.
I disagree with Tarantino on a lot of things. I don't agree with him on Matthew Lillard, who gave a very good performance on Twin Peaks. Naturally I don't agree with him on Vertigo, which he dislikes (despite idolising all of Brian DePalma's remakes of it). But he's 100% right about Paul Dano and There Will Be Blood and I don't think everyone would be defending Dano so vociferously if his work spoke for itself. There's a reason that Daniel Day Lewis is a living legend in the acting world while the best role Dano's had in the past twenty years was as the Riddler in Matt Reeve's Batman.
I tend to think Paul Thomas Anderson movies are overrated. On the other hand, maybe Tarantino's wrong that the movie was meant to be a two-hander. The posters generally more prominently feature Daniel Day Lewis but maybe the marketing team just knew what they had better than Paul Thomas Anderson. Dano is playing a morally weak man, a hypocrite, so maybe a bad performance even makes sense. Maybe he was deliberately playing false notes that Tarantino interpreted as accidental. All I know is I remember appreciating Daniel Day Lewis' performance a whole lot more when I saw the movie.
Ethan Hawke talked about Tarantino's comments on Joe Rogan and he had kind of an interesting take:
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