Quentin Tarantino isn’t holding back on his thoughts about Paul Dano in the film There Will Be Blood.’ Speaking on 'The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast', he ranked the 2007 film fifth among the best of the 21st century. Tarantino praised Daniel Day-Lewis’s performance in the film, arguing that it was intended as a “two-hander,” but Dano was “weak sauce,” and he later questioned the casting choice. Tarantino praised Daniel Day-Lewis’ performance in the film, argued it was intended as a “two-hander,” but Dano was “weak sauce,” “a weak sister,” and later questioned the casting choice. He said, “So you put him with the weakest male actor in SAG? The limpest d*** in the world?” He insisted that he wasn’t calling it a “terrible performance,” but “a non-entity [performance]. I don’t care for him.” He noted that Day-Lewis didn’t even need “a strong foil,” but the film “would’ve had more — there would’ve been more stringiness to the beef.”