Rosanna Arquette says Quentin Tarantino’s use of N-word in Pulp Fiction is ‘racist and creepy’

<p>Arquette says 1994 film is ‘great on many levels’ but she ‘cannot stand that [the director] has been given a hall pass’</p><p>Pulp Fiction and Desperately Seeking Susan star Rosanna Arquette has said she found Quentin Tarantino’s use of the N-word in Pulp Fiction to be “racist and creepy”.</p><p><a href="https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/celebrity/article/rosanna-arquette-harvey-weinstein-the-moment-charli-xcx-interview-0j3csql9h">In an interview with the Sunday Times</a>, Arquette said of the film, in which she plays the tattooed and pierced wife to Eric Stoltz’s syringe-wielding drug dealer: “It’s iconic, a great film on a lot of levels. But personally I am over the use of the N-word – I hate it. I cannot stand that [Tarantino] has been given a hall pass.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/mar/09/rosanna-arquette-quentin-tarantinos-n-word-pulp-fiction-racist-creepy">Continue reading...</a>