Quentin Tarantino “Shocks” The Ears Of Reporters By Dropping The N-Word In The Golden Globes Press Room

It was hard for me to focus on Quentino Tarantino’s acceptance speech after he won the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay, because earlier in the night Amy Poehler made a joke about the “rat-faced people” and the camera immediately cut to QT’s face one second after she said it. It was perfect. So when rat-faced QT got on stage to accept his award, I kept picturing him nibbling toe cheese off of someone’s foot and didn’t listen to the words coming out of his mouth. Apparently, during his speech, the n-word never jumped off of his tongue, which is surprising. But when QT got backstage, the n-word flew out of his mouth once, which made the innocent reporters clutch their pristine ears.

At the 0:35 mark in the clip above, a reporter asks QT if he ever thought about not using the n-word while making and writing Django Unchained. QT answered the question without shutting any butts down, which is a good thing, because last night was definitely an open butt kind of night. But QT did drop the n-word just once:

No, not really, because it’s… If somebody is out there actually saying it when it comes to the word nigger, that the fact that I was using it in the movie more than it was used in the Antebellum South in Missippii in 1858, then feel free to make that case. But no one is actually making that case. So in other words, they’re actually saying that I should soften it, they’re saying I should lie, they’re saying I should whitewash, they’re saying I should massage and I never do that when it comes to my characters.”

E! News says that the room went completely silent and then later Don Cheadle, who took the stage after QT, broke the awkwardness by saying, “Please no ‘nigger questions’. Black people questions are all right.”

QT used the n-word to talk about why he used the n-word in his movie, so I’m not sure why reporters were shocked by him using it. Shit, they should be shocked that he didn’t use it in his acceptance speech. I’m surprised he didn’t thank the n-word in his speech, because without it, his movie would’ve been 90 minutes shorter since every character says it at least 200 million times each.

And here’s a few of the Django Unchained hos (sans Samuel L. Jackson) before, during and after the Golden Globes last night: Rat-faced QT with his piece, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCatchAHo, Kerry Washington and Jamie Foxx.