Sunday Mirror

Fact follows Pulp Fiction

Tarantino faces home burglars

- BY MIKE PARKER in Los Angeles

QUENTIN Tarantino was in a stand-off worthy of one of his violent films when burglars broke into his LA mansion.

The Pulp Fiction director, 55, stood his ground and faced down must have been terrified but two intruders he caught rifling stood his ground like characters through his home at night. in his films and just faced them

The crooks, who broke in by down. The They must have been climbing ing a fence and smashing hing a window, fled with ith jewellery.

A pal al revealed how the he Kill Bill and Reservoir eservoir Dogs writer was alerted by a loud ud noise and shocked ed to find the burglars. ars. He said: “He stunned, they just stood there for a moment, like they were frozen, before running off into the night.”

Tarantino, who married Israeli pop star Daniella Pick, 35, in November, is shooting a film about the infamous 1969 Manson Family murders starring Brad Pitt, 55, and Leonardo DiCaprio, 44.

His friend added: “He reckons he just acted instinctiv­ely by confrontin­g the raiders. Thank God they weren’t armed.”

In 1996 he told an interviewe­r he was willing to kill an intruder, even they were just a kid of 12.

He said: “I would empty the gun until you were dead.”

A spokesman for Tarantino said he could not comment.

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