Quentin Tarantino addresses rumours about his ‘fetish’ for women’s feet in his films

Quentin Tarantino has finally addressed the longstanding rumours that he has a fetish for, well, women’s feet in his films. 

The director has included gratuitous closeups of women’s feet in several of his movies, leading Brad Pitt to jokingly thank the feet of co-stars Margot Robbie and Margaret Qualley during an awards acceptance speech for his role in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

During a new interview with GQ, Tarantino defended this, ah, unusual trademark, claiming it is just “good direction” and he doesn’t “take it seriously”.

“There’s a lot of feet in a lot of good directors’ movies,” he said.

“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.”

In other news, Tarantino recently revealed that he has vowed to never share one penny with his mother after she insulted his writing when he was younger.

“She was bitching at me about that, and then, in the middle of her little tirade, she said, ‘Oh and by the way, this little writing career?’ — with the finger quotes — ‘this little writing career that you’re doing? That shit is fucking over!’ She just meant don’t do it in class when you’re supposed to be doing something else,” Tarantino said on The Moment podcast.

He continued: “When she said that to me in that sarcastic way, I was in my head and I go: ‘Okay, lady. When I become a successful writer, you will never see penny one from my success. There will be no house for you. There’s no vacation for you; no Elvis Cadillac for mommy. You get nothing because you said that.”

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Check out the feet scenes from Quentin Tarantino film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood:

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