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Actress Rosanna Arquette, who played the girlfriend of drug dealer Lance (Eric Stoltz) in the movie “Pulp Fiction,” criticized its director for using the N-word in his films.

Arquette said she believes Quentin Tarantino has been given a “pass” to use the racial slur in films such as “Django Unchained,” “The Hateful Eight,” “Jackie Brown” and “Pulp Fiction.”

“Personally, I don’t use the N-word anymore. I hate it. I can’t stand that they gave it a pass,” Arquette told the Sunday Times (UK). “It’s not art, it’s just racist and creepy.”

Arquette also noted that she thought “Pulp Fiction” was “iconic” on “many levels,” however, she emphasized that Tarantino had no business using the derogatory term.

Arquette is not the only Hollywood star who has criticized Tarantino’s use of the pejorative. In 2012, director Spike Lee criticized Tarantino for using the N-word in “Django Unchained,” telling Vibe magazine that doing so was “disrespectful to my ancestors.”

In “Django Unchained,” a film set in the 1850s about a slave (Jamie Newsx) who goes on a mission with an unorthodox German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to rescue his wife (Kerry Washington) from a psychotic slave owner (Leonardo DiCaprio), the N-word was used more than 100 times by black and white actors. The film received five nominations at the 2013 Academy Awards, with Waltz winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Tarantino also won best original screenplay for the controversial film.

Tarantino I used the N word while fending off criticism backstage at the 2013 Golden Globes after winning best screenplay for “Django Unchained.”

“They say I should soften it, they say I should lie, they say I should bleach it, they say I should massage,” he said. “And I never do that when it comes to my characters.”

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Nearly a decade later, Tarantino defiantly maintained his stance on the use of the racial slur during a 2022 appearance on “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace” and urged offended viewers to “watch something else.”

“If you have a problem with my movies, then they’re not the movies you should see. Apparently, I’m not making them for you,” Tarantino said.

Actor Samuel L. Jackson, who has starred in six Tarantino films that repeatedly use the N-word, defended Tarantino’s work, arguing that it was a contextual issue.

“Every time someone wants an example of the overuse of the N-word, they go to Quentin; it’s unfair,” Jackson told British newspaper The Sunday Times in 2022. “He’s just telling the story and the characters talk like that. When [’12 Years a Slave’ director] Steve McQueen does it, it’s art. He is an artist. “Quentin is just a popcorn filmmaker.”

Jackson also called the backlash Tarantino has faced “bullshit” in a 2019 interview with Esquire magazine.

Explaining that he “warned Quentin about [keeping] all the ‘blacks storage’ [movie line in the script]he continued, “I was like, ‘Don’t say ‘blacks storage.'” He says, ‘No, I’m going to say it like this.’ And we tried to tone it down by making his wife black, because that wasn’t originally written.”

“But you can’t just tell a writer that they can’t speak, write the words, put the words in the mouths of people of their ethnicities, the way they use their words,” Jackson added. “You can’t do that, because then it becomes a lie; it’s not honest. It’s just not honest.”

Newsx defended Tarantino in a 2018 interview with Yahoo! Entertainment, saying it found the director’s use of the word acceptable only because of the historical accuracy of the word in relation to the script.

“I understood the text,” Newsx explained. “The N-word was said 100 times, but I understood the text; that’s what it was like back then.”