Quentin Tarantino has revealed his estranged father only tracked him down once he "became famous".
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The 'Reservoir Dogs' filmmaker - whose first feature film was released in 1992 - opened up about his biological father Tony Tarantino and admitted hearing from his dad - whom he never knew - after so long was "f****** horrible".
Appearing on the Marc Maron's 'WTF' podcast, he said: "He had 30 f****** years to find me and he never did. But then when I became famous, he crawled out of the woodwork.
“It was f****** horrible. It was a drag. He tried to reach out to me. I wasn’t interested.”
The 58-year-old director revealed he regrets using Tony's surname professionally, and he only did so because it sounded cool.
He explained: "It had nothing to do with him. It had nothing to do with the family. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn’t use the name Tarantino.
"If I had it to do all over again, I would use my middle name as my last name. I would be Quentin Jerome.”
The 'Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood' filmmaker revealed the pair have only seen each other once, and he "waved him away".
He added: "So one day I was in a café, I’m ordering something and all of a sudden, he is just there.
“And he’s like, ‘Hi. It’s me.’ And I look up, and I knew exactly who it was. And I go ‘Ugh. I knew this day was going to come.’ And he goes, ‘Yup. That day is today.’
"And he goes, ‘May I sit?’ And I just looked at the table, and I waved him away with my hand. I looked at him when I said, ‘Ugh.’ And then I just looked at my plate and waved him away.
"'Just go, just go'. And he went. That was it. I am sure he is alive. He has done enough that when he dies, they’ll write about him.”
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