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The actor will join us to talk about his busy career on both sides of the camera on films from Love & Mercy to There Will Be Blood. But will we hear from Quentin Tarantino? Roll up, roll up: who will be the first to ask Paul Dano what he makes of Quentin Tarantino’s acting abilities, after the director’s bananas tirade against Dano (plus Owen Wilson and Matthew Lillard) on a podcast last year. Tarantino called Dano “weak sauce”, especially for his role opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, leading to a pile-on of outraged praise for the actor from the likes of George Clooney, Toni Collette, Ben Stiller, Day-Lewis himself – and multiple articles in this paper. We also feel he’s superb as Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy; chilling in 12 Years a Slave; and unforgettable in Prisoners – particularly the scene where Hugh Jackman keeps him alive inside a wall. That likable yet quietly unnerving quality has been there from the start. After an astonishing early role opposite Brian Cox in L.I.E, his breakthrough came in Little Miss Sunshine as Dwayne, a teenager who takes a vow of silence until he achieves his dream of becoming a fighter pilot. More recently, his low-key take on the

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