Quentin Tarantino has admitted that he would work under a different name if he could start his career over.The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood director reflected on his family name in a new interview, revealing that while his birth father’s name was Tarantino, he grew up under his stepfather’s name Zastoupil.“I didn’t even know about the name Tarantino really at that time.
I was Zastoupil,” he told Marc Maron’s WTF podcast. “That was my name. I was always known by that. That’s how I learned to write.“I never knew [my father] at all.
So when I took the name Tarantino around 18 or 19, it was simply because it sounded cool, it was Italian. Quentin Tarantino sounded like a cool name.
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