Tarantino ‘regrets’ Uma Thurman car-driving scene
LOS ANGELES: Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino said persuading actress Uma Thurman to perform a car-driving scene on the set of “Kill Bill” — which ended with her in the hospital — is the “biggest regret” of his life.
Thurman, 47, in an interview with The New York Times published on Saturday, said she had an enormous fight with Tarantino after the car crashed and accused him of trying to kill her.
She walked back her criticism of Tarantino somewhat in an Instagram post on Monday, saying she does not believe now that he acted with “malicious intent.”
Tarantino delivered his account of the incident which occurred on set in Mexico in an interview published on Monday in Deadline Hollywood.
“None of us ever considered it a stunt,” the 54-year-old director said. “Maybe we should have, but we didn’t.”
He said he drove the strip of road himself to ensure it would be “easy and safe enough for Uma to drive.
“I came in there all happy telling her she could totally do it, it was a straight line, you will have no problem,” he said.
“I told her it would be safe. And it wasn’t. I was wrong,” he said. “I didn’t force her into the car. She got into it because she trusted me.”
Tarantino said it was decided at the last minute because of the light to have Thurman drive the car in the opposite direction.
“And I didn’t think I needed to run the road again to make sure there wasn’t any difference, going in the opposite direction,” he said. “That was one of my most horrendous mistakes, that I didn’t take the time to run the road, one more time.