Quentin Tarantino’s films are connected by more than just graphic violence, excessive profanity, and homages to obscure old movies. The iconic writer-director also often works with actors he’s previously collaborated with, from bona fide A-listers like Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio to fading stars whose careers he reinvigorated like Kurt Russell and Bruce Dern.
Tarantino won’t cast an actor he already knows just for the sake of it — it all comes down to who’s right for each character — but there are certain performers like Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman that gel with Q.T.’s signature style and feel at home in his curious world.
10 Brad Pitt – 12 Years A Slave (95%)
After writing the role of stoner Floyd for Brad Pitt in True Romance, Tarantino gave the A-lister a leading role in one of his directorial efforts as Lt. Aldo Raine, the leader of the eponymous band of Nazi-killing Jewish American soldiers in Inglourious Basterds.
Tarantino later directed Pitt to his first acting Oscar win in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but the actor’s most acclaimed movie, according to Rotten Tomatoes, is 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen’s historical drama that competed with Tarantino’s own slavery-related movie in the 2013 awards race. In addition to playing a small role, Pitt produced 12 Years a Slave through his Plan B production company. It was through his producer role that he won his first actual Oscar, as 12 Years a Slave took home the Best Picture win.
9 Zoë Bell – Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (85%)
Zoë Bell isn’t primarily an actor; she’s a stunt performer. She famously doubled for Lucy Lawless in Xena: Warrior Princess (and Uma Thurman in Kill Bill). In Death Proof, she actually plays herself as a Hollywood stunt performer who happens to be friends with the lead characters.
She’s since played a tracker in Django Unchained, Six-Horse Judy in The Hateful Eight, and Janet (a fellow stunt professional) in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, her highest-rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes.
8 Tim Roth – Selma (99%)
Tim Roth was essentially the star of Tarantino’s first movie Reservoir Dogs, as the midpoint twist places his character, Mr. Orange, at the center of the conflict. He later appeared in the opening and closing scenes of Pulp Fiction and played a major role in The Hateful Eight.
Roth’s most critically acclaimed work, according to Rotten Tomatoes, is Ava DuVernay’s Selma, a heartfelt cinematic portrayal of Martin Luther King, Jr. that’s been lauded as one of the most historically accurate historical movies ever made.
7 Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds (89%)
After stealing Inglourious Basterds from the rest of the cast as the sinister Col. Hans Landa, Christoph Waltz was recruited to play the title character’s dentist-turned-bounty hunter sidekick, Dr. King Schultz, in Tarantino’s next film, Django Unchained. In both cases, Waltz received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Tarantino feared he’d written an uncastable role when he was seeking actors for Inglourious Basterds and couldn’t find anyone to play Landa convincingly. Then, Waltz came along and saved the movie.
6 Bruce Dern – Wild River (100%)
Bruce Dern played supporting roles in Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight before being called upon to replace Burt Reynolds as George Spahn in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood following Reynolds’ passing.
Dern’s film debut remains his highest-rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes. Elia Kazan’s Wild River was a starring vehicle for Montgomery Clift; Dern played the uncredited small role of Jack Roper.
5 Kurt Russell – Bone Tomahawk (90%)
Kurt Russell got his start as a child actor in Disney movies, then grew up to play badasses like Snake Plissken and R.J. MacReady for John Carpenter, then went back to the Mouse House with sentimental movies like Miracle. Quentin Tarantino stepped in to bring back Russell’s edge with Death Proof, in which Russell plays the sadistic Stuntman Mike.
Since then, Russell has played a major role in The Hateful Eight and a minor role in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but his highest-rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes is the grisly western horror flick Bone Tomahawk.
4 Michael Madsen – Reservoir Dogs (92%)
After playing supporting roles in Thelma & Louise and The Doors, Michael Madsen got his start when Quentin Tarantino cast him to play the milkshake-slurping, cop-torturing, scene-stealing Mr. Blonde in his debut feature Reservoir Dogs.
Madsen went on to play Budd in Kill Bill and Joe Gage in The Hateful Eight, as well as cameoing in the Bounty Law prologue of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but his top-rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes is still Reservoir Dogs.
3 Leonardo DiCaprio – Catch Me If You Can (96%)
Leonardo DiCaprio was Quentin Tarantino’s original choice for the role of Col. Hans Landa before deciding to go for a German-speaking actor. DiCaprio would work with Tarantino on his next movie, Django Unchained, playing the hateable yet campy slave owner Calvin Candie. He later played Rick Dalton in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
But DiCaprio’s highest-rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes isn’t one he made with Tarantino or even one he made with Scorsese. It’s Steven Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can, a hilarious, fast-paced biopic of con man Frank Abagnale Jr. co-starring Tom Hanks.
2 Uma Thurman – Dangerous Liaisons (93%)
On the set of Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino pitched the opening shot of Kill Bill to Uma Thurman, and together, the duo created the Bride, arguably the most badass hero in Tarantino’s entire filmography.
Thurman’s highest-rated film on Rotten Tomatoes is the hit historical drama Dangerous Liaisons with a 93% approval score, although Pulp Fiction is a close second with 92%.
1 Samuel L. Jackson – The Incredibles (97%)
Ever since blowing audiences away with his Ezekiel 25:17 speech in Pulp Fiction, Samuel L. Jackson has been one of Tarantino’s most regular collaborators. After playing hitman Jules in Pulp Fiction, he played gun runner Ordell in Jackie Brown, a piano-playing drifter in Kill Bill, the narrator in Inglourious Basterds, house slave Stephen in Django Unchained, and Major Marquis Warren in The Hateful Eight.
But none of those are Jackson’s top-rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes. That distinction goes to Pixar’s superhero comedy The Incredibles, in which he plays the ice-powered Frozone.
December 11, 2020 at 02:30AM
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