Paul Dano has responded to Quentin Tarantino’s scathing criticism of his acting abilities, thanking those who came to his defence after Tarantino called him a “weak, uninteresting guy” and “the limpest dick in the world”. On Wednesday, Dano told Variety that the supportive responses that poured in from his peers and across social media was touching. But it’s also drastically obvious that it’s not a two-hander,” Tarantino told Ellis. [Dano] is just such a weak, weak, uninteresting guy. Reese Witherspoon, who starred in Anderson’s 2014 film Inherent Vice with Dano, wrote on social media: “Paul Dano is an incredibly gifted, versatile actor.