Uma Thurman warned daughter Maya Hawke about Quentin Tarantino and his ‘fetish’

Uma Thurman warned her daughter Maya Hawke earlier than she labored with Quentin Tarantino.

The 55-year-old has lengthy been hailed because the director’s ‘muse’, having in fact appeared as Mia Wallace in Pulp Fiction and took on the lead in Kill Invoice.

So, if the Stranger Issues star goes to go to anybody for recommendation on working with him, her legendary mum is a little bit of a no brainer.

Hawke herself labored with Tarantino when she was solid as Flower Youngster in his 2019 hit, As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood. And when the 27-year-old lately appeared on Amy Poehler’s podcast, Good Cling, she opened up about her time engaged on the movie and was requested if Thurman had supplied up any type of recommendation.

And, properly, her recommendation was fairly distinctive, not precisely alongside the traces of ‘at all times say good morning’ or ‘he likes oat milk in his espresso’ however one thing slightly extra private.

“Preserve your sneakers on,” Thurman apparently advised her actor daughter, in reference to Tarantino allegedly having a little bit of a factor for naked toes.

“Preserve your sneakers on,” repeated the podcast host because the pair burst into laughter.

“Preserve ‘em on, child,” she continued. “Excellent recommendation. Excellent.”

Thurman has beforehand given a little bit of a touch on the alleged foot fetish, having been requested about it throughout an look on Late Evening with Conan O’Brien final yr.

“There’s this hearsay that Quentin Tarantino has a foot fetish,” the host stated, giving a nod to there being quite a few close-ups of her personal toes within the Kill Invoice movies.

And the actor claimed that whereas the director ‘staunchly denies’ these claims, O’Brien ought to ask him about it himself.

“He claims that each foot shot was important to the telling of the story,” Thurman added.

Though, O’Brien stated at time he doesn’t ‘see the purpose in any respect’ and joked: “I’m going to be barefoot through the interview.”

He added that it’d ‘distract’ the director: “He might begin sweating, and we’ll see what occurs.”

Thurman isn’t the one one to have talked about it both, with Brad Pitt even joking about it when he picked up a 2020 Display Actors Guild Award for As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood.

He joked that Tarantino has ‘separated extra ladies from their sneakers than the TSA’, with the favored film additionally that includes its share of naked foot photographs.

However, formally, it stays unknown if he undoubtedly does have a foot fetish.