Quentin Tarantino – one, a director, we don’t know if you’ve heard of him – was a guest on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio show a week ago, and as befits Stern’s shows, we got the juicy details. While all the news channels in the world focused on the answer to the question of which of Tarantino’s films is Tarantino’s favorite (“There was a time in Hollywood”, if you asked), we are small Provençals, and therefore rather interested in a small part of the interview in which the director told about the meeting with his wife and the mother of his two children – also known As the outgoing “Pick Sisters” and Zvika’s home, Daniela Pick.
Until today we heard the story in parts, and only through the gossip sections, but now Quentin the irreverent romantic rolled the story of their acquaintance in his own words. “I met her a few years ago,” he begins the story, as usual, in the middle. “I was in Israel for the launch of Dishonorable Bastards, and I met her in a club. We danced all night, I had to throw my shirt after. It smelled like a dead horse. I’ve had good nights, but I’ve never had a night like this. And she’s just a knockout, A beauty,” he noted, before mentioning that she is a well-known figure in Israel because it is the home of the pop star “Sabika Peak” (oh, these Americans don’t know Ch).
“But we just let it fade. She moved on with her life, I moved on with my life,” Tarantino explained. Although he somewhat skips over what was published at the time, in 2009, in the gossip sections: Shafik joined Tarantino on the promotional tour of the film throughout Europe, and they were together for about three months. “Six years later, I was invited on a cruise,” he continues with a characteristic time skip. “I met a woman there who is a family friend of the Peeks. So I told her some nice things about Daniela under the assumption that she would return home to Tel Aviv, run into Daniela and say ‘I ran into Quentin and he said all kinds of nice things’. That was the plan.”
Only that Quentin did not build on the Israeli audacity. “Well, she went back to her room and called Daniela. Then she told me, ‘I finished talking to Daniela, and it turns out that she just broke up with her boyfriend. So when you’re done with Cruz, ring her.’ I called her, we had a nice conversation, she was happy to hear from me. And without noticing, we talked three times in a row in a short time, which is unusual for me. So we decided to meet, without promises, not knowing what would happen. I told her, ‘You’re not supposed to come to America, and I’m not supposed to come to Tel Aviv, so let’s meet in Paris.’ It was a bit of engineering to make it work, like meeting in the city of love, but we also wanted it to work out. We both went to Paris, and we’ve been together ever since.” how sweet. I mean, sweet compared to Tarantino. After all, there is not a single amputated limb in this story. Although there is sure to be a leg or two involved in it.