After drawing backlash for his participation in a rally against police brutality, Quentin Tarantino is going on MSNBC to set the record straight.
The Pulp Fiction director is set to make an appearance on MSNBC's All In With Chris Hayes for an interview about his recent comments, which painted police officers as "murderers."
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The network announced his appearance on Twitter on Wednesday afternoon.
Don't miss @chrislhayes' interview with Quentin Tarantino tomorrow on his comments about police brutality #inners pic.twitter.com/4HAaO2tbkZ— All In w/Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) November 4, 2015
“So often when celebrities or artists end up in the crossfire of controversy, they either stop talking or quickly apologize and move on," host Chris Hayes told Entertainment Weekly. "It’s striking to me that he feels strongly enough about the underlying issue that he wants to discuss it on live TV.”
On Oct. 24th, Tarantino joined protesters in New York City at a demonstration, where he told the crowd, “When I see murders, I do not stand by ... I have to call a murder a murder, and I have to call the murderers the murderers.”
New York City Police fired back, with police unions in Los Angeles and Philadelphia joining in on a call to boycott Tarantino's films -- including the upcoming The Hateful Eight.
“It’s no surprise that someone who makes a living glorifying crime and violence is a cop-hater, too,” Police Benevolent Association president Patrick J. Lynch said in a statement to New York Post. “The police officers that Quentin Tarantino calls ‘murderers’ aren’t living in one of his depraved big-screen fantasies — they’re risking and sometimes sacrificing their lives to protect communities from real crime and mayhem.”
However, Tarantino refused to back down from his statements, later telling the Los Angeles Times, "I'm not being intimidated ... I'm not a cop hater. That is a misrepresentation. That is slanderous. That is not how I feel."
To find out how Tarantino really feels, tune into the interview on All In With Chris Hayes, airing on MSNBC on Wednesday at 8 p.m ET.