The director was criticised after Thurman revealed she suffered concussion and damaged knees on the set of the 2003 movie.
Uma Thurman gave an interview to New York Times last week in which she discussed a car crash that occurred on the set of Kill Bill. She also shared a video of the incident on her Instagram page to coincide with the piece, calling it 'negligent to the point of criminality'. Check out the video here:
Quentin Tarantino has now responded to the article and the video.
"I knew that the piece was happening. Uma and I had talked about it, for a long period of time, deciding how she was going to do it. She wanted clarity on what happened in that car crash, after all these years," he said in an interview with Deadline.
"None of us ever considered it a stunt. It was just driving," he recalled. Thurman said she voiced her concerns about driving the vehicle on a sandy road.
"I’m sure I wasn’t in a rage and I wasn’t livid. I didn’t go barging into Uma’s trailer, screaming at her to get into the car," said Tarantino.
He added that the pair "weren’t estranged" but that it took a few years for the “Quentin and Uma” double act to return to what it was.
"It affected me and Uma for the next two to three years. It wasn’t like we didn’t talk. But a trust was broken."
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