“When she said that to me in that sarcastic way, I was in my head,” Tarantino acknowledged, “and I go, ‘OK lady, when I become a successful writer, you will never see one penny from my success. There will be no house for you. There’s no vacation for you, no Elvis Cadillac for mommy. You will get nothing because you said that.'”Â
It’s a promise he followed through on, despite the now-Tennessee-based septuagenarian allowing him to drop out of high school at 16, two years after he penned his first screenplay called Captain Peachfuzz and the Anchovy Bandit.Â
Now worth a reported $150 million thanks to beloved films like Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Django Unchained and Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, Tarantino’s hasn’t handed over a cent to his mom save for the time, “I helped her out of a jam with the IRS.”Â
And she shouldn’t, uh, count on the 63-year-old changing his mind. As he put it, “There are consequences for your sarcastic tone about what’s meaningful to them.”Â
Though he’s not the only star unwilling to bring home that proverbial bacon with plenty of other celebs explaining they want their kids to work hard for the money. Check out who else isn’t ready to fork over their fortune.Â
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