Margaret Cho was 'freaked out' by Quentin Tarantino's 'power' following Pulp Fiction success
Quentin Tarantino's former partner Margaret Cho was disturbed by the level of "power" the filmmaker possessed in Hollywood following the release of his acclaimed 1994 movie Pulp Fiction.
Margaret Cho was frightened by the sheer level of power her former partner Quentin Tarantino had following the success of Pulp Fiction.
The 57-year-old comedian dated the acclaimed filmmaker during the early 1990s and recalled being unsettled by the "a**-kissing" Tarantino received from the showbiz world following the release of the iconic 1994 flick.
Speaking on an upcoming episode of the Dinky Podcast, Margaret said: "You know what's so crazy, I've never seen that amount of a**-kissing. People would kiss his a** everywhere we went.
"This was right after Pulp Fiction came out, and during awards season, I've never witnessed the kind of power that he had walking into a room, walking into (anywhere)."
The All-American Girl star continued: "We went to a lot of things, like at the Directors Guild or whatever. Everybody at the table would stand up – Billy Wilder, Martin Scorsese – when Quentin walked in.
"Everybody would just, like, come and embrace him. When we would go to these Hollywood restaurants, the amount of a**-kissing, it was really crazy."
However, Margaret recalls Tarantino, 63, staying "pretty level-headed" despite the acclaim and remembered him travelling to glitzy events in a "really dented" old car.
She said of the Reservoir Dogs filmmaker: "He had a really dented, old, barely drivable Geo Metro, which is the s******** possible car that you could have in the '90s.
"He would drop it off at a valet, and we'd go to all of these events in it. This crazy, beat-up Geo Metro.
"It was really nuts and because people would just fall at his feet, go crazy, try to get him aside, talk to them about stuff. You know, 'I've got a script, I've got a thing, I've got a project', all the actor people just going insane.
"I was really freaked out by it. Just the level of – nobody should have that much power. Nobody should have it."
Although she was unhappy with the attention on Tarantino, Cho understands that it happened because of the auteur's "revolutionary" impact on the world of film during the decade.
She said: "The way that changed Hollywood in the '90s was really, I think, revolutionary.
"So because of that, the industry just fell all around him."
