Ugh, resurfaced audio shows Quentin Tarantino defending Roman Polanski

A newly resurfaced radio interview with Quentin Tarantino – recently accused of violent physical behavior on his film sets by longtime colleague Uma Thurman – reveals Tarantino defending Roman Polanski for sexually preying on a 13-year-old girl.

“It’s like throwing the word ‘racist’ around,” Tarantino told Howard Stern in 2003. “It doesn’t apply to everything people use it for.”

In 1977, Polanski was charged with drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl in Los Angeles. He eventually took a plea bargain which did find him guilty of forcible sexual intercourse and has not returned to the United States for fear of being convicted and imprisoned. Read more…

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