Matthew Lillard responds to Quentin Tarantino criticizing his acting

Matthew Lillard doesn’t appreciate being targeted by Quentin Tarantino.

The “Scream” actor, 55, responded to the famed director’s recent viral quotes on  “The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast,” where he said, “I don’t care for Matthew Lillard.”

“Quentin Tarantino this week said he didn’t like me as an actor,” Lillard stated at GalaxyCon in Columbus, Ohio over the weekend, as the audience booed.

“Eh, whatever. Who gives a shit,” the “Scooby-Doo” actor added.

But Lillard did admit that Tarantino’s comments offended him.

“It hurts your feelings. It f–king sucks,” he said. “And you wouldn’t say that to Tom Cruise. You wouldn’t say that to somebody who’s a top-line actor in Hollywood.”

“I’m very popular in this room. I’m not very popular in Hollywood,” Lillard went on. “Two totally different microcosms, right? And so, you know, it’s humbling, and it hurts.”

During the Dec. 2 episode of “The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast,” Tarantino, 62, took aim at multiple actors.

“I don’t care for Owen Wilson, and I don’t care for Matthew Lillard,” Tarantino stated.

But the “Kill Bill” filmmaker went after Paul Dano the hardest, attacking his performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood.”

“He is weak sauce, man. He’s a weak sister,” Tarantino said, adding that Daniel Day-Lewis overshadows Dano in the film, and that Austin Butler would have been better in Dano’s role.

“He’s just such a weak, weak, uninteresting guy,” Tarantino continued. “Daniel Day-Lewis shows that he doesn’t need a strong foil. The movie needs it. He doesn’t need anything. It’s supposed to be a two-hander and it’s not!”

“You put him with the weakest f–ing actor in SAG?” Tarantino also said. “The limpest dick in the world?”

Numerous Hollywood stars have come out in support of Dano over Tarantino’s comments.

“Paul Dano is f-ing brilliant,” Ben Stiller wrote on X.

“idk man i think paul dano is an incredible actor,” added Marvel star Simu Liu.

Dano’s “The Batman” director Matt Reeves tweeted, “Paul Dano is an incredible actor, and an incredible person.”

“Paul Dano and I played brother and sister in THERE WILL BE BLOOD. His incredible performance speaks for itself,” said Colleen Foy.

“I sat behind Quentin Tarantino at the Cast & Crew screening and he was legit vibing with Paul’s performance,” she added. “His recent comments are incongruent with his reaction that night.”