I know what you mean yeah. I’m not even sure how much she will be in the film, but i think he knows all too well that people’s eyes will be on this as some kind of ‘definitive’ Sharon Tate story. All the early imagery, photos and footage is of her looking confident, her own person in her own time, full of life, smiling, stylish; giving a little personality back to someone who’s been viewed only as a victim for the last 50 years in God-knows-how-many crappy films and tv movies. This morning the AV Club called her ‘Goddamned radiant’ in the new pictures. I’d trust him to write a decent female character based on her, he’s known for being adept at strong female characters in his previous work (Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Basterds) and in the current climate there’s no way this won’t be handled at least sensitively. I recall the early scuttlebut around Django being, understandably like "Uh oh, the Q-man does a slavery move… " and there being a great amount of eyebrow raising but most of that pretty much stopped once the film came out. Also Margot Robbie has relentlessly played strong, well-drawn characters over recent years, i’m assuming she read the script first.
I hate the cult of Manson and hopefully this film will show him as a psychopathic killer nothing less. It’d be good if he wasn’t in it much at all.
Also with all that stuff about QT as-good-as endangering Uma Thurman’s life on-set… i mean he’s on pretty thin ice as it is.
