What was Uma Thurman’s advice to daughter Maya Hawke about working with Quentin Tarantino? Stranger Things star opens up on Amy Poehler’s podcast

Maya Hawke has opened up about her mother Uma Thurman's cheeky advice when it comes to working with Quentin Tarantino.

The Stranger Things actress sat down for a guest appearance on Amy Poehler's Good Hang podcast, where she recounted some sage advice from her mother before she worked with Tarantino on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in 2019.

“‘Keep your shoes on,’” her mother told her.

She was referring to the director's alleged fascination with feet. Poehler, who worked with Hawke on “Inside Out 2” last year, chuckled as she said:

“Keep ’em on, baby. Perfect advice. Perfect."

Everything we know about Quentin Tarantino's alleged fascinations as the filmmaker says the rumors don't bother him:

As reported by Coming Soon, Quentin Tarantino famously showed off Thurman’s feet in Pulp Fiction and both of the Kill Bill films, and his portfolio features similar moments from Margot Robbie, Salma Hayek, and Margaret Qualley.

As reported by Page Six, just last year, Thurman addressed rumors that the 62-year-old had a foot fetish during an interview on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

“There’s this rumor that Quentin Tarantino has a foot fetish,” O’Brein told Thurman in July 2024. “He claims that every foot shot was essential to the telling of the story,” she responded, referring to the foot shots.

O'Brian refuted the claims:

“There are times when I don’t see the point at all,” he laughed. “There’s serious plot going on, and then languid shots of a foot out of nowhere. That’s not true, but I’m just curious, it makes you wonder.”

The two-time Oscar-winning director has long been accused of the same rumors, including by Brad Pitt. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, back in 2020, when accepting his SAG Award for best supporting actor for his work as Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, he said:

“I want to thank my co-stars, [Leonardo DiCaprio], Margot Robbie, Margot Robbie’s feet, Margaret Qualley’s feet, Dakota Fanning’s feet. Seriously, Quentin has separated more women from their shoes than the TSA.”

As pointed out by the outlet, though, the filmmaker doesn't pay too much heed to the rumors. Back in 2021, he told GQ,

“I don’t take it seriously.” Quentin Tarantino added, “There’s a lot of feet in a lot of good directors’ movies. That’s just good direction. Like, before me, the person foot fetishism was defined by was Luis Buñuel, another film director. And Hitchcock was accused of it and Sofia Coppola has been accused of it.”

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