Read our Privacy noticePaul Dano has broken his silence after director Quentin Tarantino dissed his acting skills. “[Dano] is weak sauce, man. He’s just such a weak, weak, uninteresting guy,” Tarantino slammed on the podcast. Meanwhile, Ben Stiller, who directed Dano in the 2018 series Escape at Dannemora, wrote on X: “Paul Dano is f***ing brilliant.”Reese Witherspoon, who starred in Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2014 film, Inherent Vice, added on Threads: “Paul Dano is an incredibly gifted, versatile actor. During an appearance at AARP’s Movies for Grownups award, he said he’d be “honored” to work with Dano, suggesting he was left unimpressed by Tarantino’s “cruelty.”