Busy Philipps details audition with Quentin Tarantino: 'F-ck this guy'

"QUENTIN IS CANCELLED."
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Busy Philipps, of Freaks and Geeks fame, declared that Quentin Tarantino is "officially canceled" on Monday night.

After audio of him vehemently defending Roman Polanski in 2003 for drugging and preying on a 13-year-old girl resurfaced online Tuesday, the actress took to Twitter to tell Quentin Tarantino exactly what she thought of him.

"Fuck this guy. Fuck anyone who works with him. I'm embarrassed that I ever auditioned for him. Fuck him," she wrote. "That I fucking showed up in SHORT SHORTS AND FLIP FLOPS as requested because I WANTED THE JOB. This business sucks and enables predators and FUCKING ENOUGH."

She further detailed that the audition happened ten years ago, and, "I'm SURE IM TOO FUCKING OLD NOW."

In the audio from the Howard Stern show, Tarantino claims that what Polanski did wasn't "rape" but "sex with a minor" (which is, by definition of the law, rape -- both in America and all of Europe). "She wanted to have it,"Tarantino claims, calling the rape survivor a "13-year-old party girl" who "was down to party with Roman."

Tarantino has been under fire for complicit behavior ever since the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke. Weinstein's Miramax company produced nearly all of Tarantino's films, including Kill Bill. Uma Thurman recently revealed to Maureen Dowd that she was one of Weinstein's assault survivors.

In the story, she also pointed to a stunt that Tarantino pressured her into for Kill Bill, which resulted in a car crash that lead to injuries she still deals with today. Tarantino also spit in the actresses face and choked her for the movie, per Thurman.

Most recently, Thurman took to Instagram to further explain that she doesn't blame Tarantino with malintent, although the circumstances of the crash were, "negligent to the point of criminality."

In an interview with the director, Tarantino told Deadline that, “It’s the biggest regret of my life, getting her to do that stunt. I start hearing from the production manager, Bennett Walsh, that Uma is trepidatious about doing the driving shot. None of us ever considered it a stunt. It was just driving. None of us looked at it as a stunt. Maybe we should have, but we didn’t."

But as this newly surfaced audio makes clear, Tarantino's treatment of female actresses isn't the only misstep people are angry about.

Philipps signed off on her Twitter rampage against him saying, "I have to go put my two girls to bed and pray that they they get to grow up in a world where drugging and raping a child at 13 isn't laughed off in a radio interview 'because she wanted it.'"

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Jess Joho

Jess is an LA-based culture critic who covers intimacy in the digital age, from sex and relationship to weed and all media (tv, games, film, the web). Previously associate editor at Kill Screen, you can also find her words on Vice, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Vox, and others. She is a Brazilian-Swiss American immigrant with a love for all things weird and magical.

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