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Maya Hawke Reveals Uma Thurman’s Tarantino Advice: "Keep Your Shoes On"
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Maya Hawke Reveals Uma Thurman’s Tarantino Advice: “Keep Your Shoes On”

by jummy84
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It seems like Quentin Tarantino isn’t beating the foot fetish allegations anytime soon.

During a recent episode of Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast, Maya Hawke was asked whether her mom, Uma Thurman, shared “any advice about working with Quentin” going into her role in 2019’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.

The Stranger Things star had a quick answer, simply responding, “Keep your shoes on,” causing them to laugh in unison.

“Keep ’em on, baby. Keep those shoes on,” Poehler joked in response. “Perfect advice. Perfect.”

As one of Tarantino’s most frequent collaborators, Thurman has a fair share of experience with the filmmaker’s predilection for foot scenes. In 1994’s Pulp Fiction, there are multiple close-ups of her character Mia Wallace’s bare feet.

More infamously, there’s a scene in 2003’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1 that zooms in on both of Thurman’s feet as she wiggles her toes to regain feeling in her body after coming out of a coma. Revisit it below.

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More recently, Margot Robbie’s soles were featured in a Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood scene for which Tarantino reportedly instructed her not to wash her feet. Margaret Qualley and Dakota Fanning’s bare feet were also seen in the film.

Another frequent Tarantino collaborator, Brad Pitt, actually called him out on it while accepting a SAG Award for his supporting role as Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time, saying, “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.”

For his part, Tarantino has defended his camera’s obsession with women’s feet. “There’s a lot of feet in a lot of good directors’ movies. That’s just good direction,” he told GQ in 2021. “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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A collage of the best shoes to wear with bootcut jeans, as pictured on Kendall Jenner and @sylviemus_
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6 Timeless Shoes to Wear With Bootcut Jeans This Winter

by jummy84
written by jummy84

While the very nature and name of this viral denim style might indicate that the best shoes to wear with bootcut jeans be the footwear shape featured in its moniker, let me be the first to admit that this cut is actually misleading. That’s not to say that boots aren’t a suitable pairing for bootcut jeans. On the contrary, this fit is so harmonious that the entire denim category is titled after it. However, I feel that this epithet can be considerably deceptive and trick people into believing that boots are the only thing that works with them. Quite the opposite is true, in fact.

The fit-and-flare structure of bootcut jeans is already something that makes them such a hero in any well-edited wardrobe. But this slight broadening from the knee to ankle is also what makes them versatile enough to work with an array of shoe styles, going beyond the humble kitten-heel knee-high (Saint Laurent’s slinky Francoise) or square-toe contemporary classic (Khaite’s Nevada).

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Christian Dior once said, “You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes”, which is an apt adage I’m committing to heart when it comes to bootcut jeans and shoe pairings. You see, the slightly frustrating part about wearing bootcut jeans with the wrong shoe, per se, is that you might end up looking like Marissa Cooper from The O.C.

While Mischa Barton’s character is so beloved with her arsenal of Chanel handbags and coterie of flouncy boho dresses, one wrong step and you could be wearing an ensemble that feels slightly like it’s stuck in 2005. Of course, with the Y2K renaissance still in progress, this isn’t necessarily an issue. Still, there are certain shoes that help bootcut jeans feel more contemporary and chic. (And fitting for 2025.)

An image of Mischa Barton in character as Marissa Cooper wearing t-bar sandals with bootcut jeans while filming The O.C.

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Interestingly, bootcut jeans have also emerged from the slumber of early 2000s fashion trends and are swiftly becoming one of the most in-demand silhouettes for the autumn/winter period. No longer slung low on our hips and paired with shearling-lined Uggs, the bootcut jeans of now are modern, polished and a little flirty—so shouldn’t the shoes we wear with them reflect this mode?