It seems like Quentin Tarantino will never be able to escape his long-running foot fetish rumors.
During a recent conversation on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast, Maya Hawke was asked if her mom, Oscar-nominated actress Uma Thurman, gave her “any advice about working with Quentin?”
Thurman starred in three of Tarantino’s most iconic films, 1994’s Pulp Fiction, 2003’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and 2004’s Kill Bill: Vol. 2, before her daughter later appeared in his 2019 pic, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
The Stranger Things star didn’t waste any time with her response, “Keep your shoes on,” as she and Poehler broke out in laughter.
“Keep them on, baby. Keep those shoes on,” the SNL alum quipped after. “Perfect advice. Perfect.”
Throughout his Hollywood career, the two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker has been accused of having an obsession with feet. That’s because he’s featured several shots of women’s bare feet in his films, including those of Margot Robbie, Margaret Qualley and Dakota Fanning.
Tarantino has been teased about it for years, including from Brad Pitt, who jokingly called him out while accepting his SAG Award in 2020 for best supporting actor for his role as Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
“I want to thank my co-stars, [Leonardo DiCaprio], Margot Robbie, Margot Robbie’s feet, Margaret Qualley’s feet, Dakota Fanning’s feet,” the actor said, drawing laughter from the audience. “Seriously, Quentin has separated more women from their shoes than the TSA.”
However, Tarantino doesn’t seem to let the rumors bother him much, as he told GQ in 2021, “I don’t take it seriously.” He also defended his decision to focus on women’s feet in his projects.
“There’s a lot of feet in a lot of good directors’ movies. That’s just good direction,” the filmmaker said at the time. “Like, before me, the person foot fetishism was defined by was Luis Buñuel, another film director. And Hitchcock was accused of it and Sofia Coppola has been accused of it.”
