Why Matt Dillon turned down Quentin Tarantino and his 1994 epic ‘Pulp Fiction’The 1994 crime movie Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino is absolutely brimming with iconic moments and characters, one of whom is undoubtedly Butch Coolidge, famously played by Bruce Willis. However, Willis was not always meant to play the part, and Tarantino had actually written it for Matt Dillon. Tarantino once explained why Dillon was not keen on playing Butch in his crime classic on the 2 Bears, 1 Cave podcast. “So what happened was I originally wrote the part for Matt Dillon because he was a fan of my script for Reservoir Dogs,” he said. “Matt Dillon fell into the name category that they would accept.”