Samuel L. Jackson has come to the defence of Quentin Tarantino after he received backlash for using the N-word in his movie Django.
According to Samuel L. Jackson, it is double standard because other movie producers do the same.
He said:
“You take ’12 Years a Slave,’ which is supposedly made by an auteur. Steve McQueen is very different than Quentin. When you have a song that says n-gger in it 300 times nobody says s***. So it’s ok for Steve McQueen to use [the N-word] because he’s artistically attacking the system and the way people think and feel, but Quentin is just doing it to just strike the blackboard with his nails. That’s not true. There’s no dishonesty in anything that [Quentin] writes or how people talk, feel, or speak [in his movies].”
Jackson previously supported Tarantino and said,“It’s some bulls***…You can’t just tell a writer he can’t talk, write the words, put the words in the mouths of the people from their ethnicities, the way that they use their words. You cannot do that, because then it becomes an untruth; it’s not honest. It’s just not honest.”