Uma Thurman being seriously injured in car crash on set was a 'horrendous mistake'

Uma Thurman driving a car that resulted in a crash on the set of Kill Bill, was a horrendous ‘mistake’, director Quentin Tarantino said years later.

The celebrity was seriously injured in an accident during filming, resulting in her hurting her neck and knee. Uma Thurman revealed to The New York Times years later, she told Tarantino she was worried about the car before the crash, but the director persuaded to carry on with the scene. The movie star posted footage of the incident in 2018, 15 years after cameras caught it on film.

Uma Thurman’s car crash on the set of Kill Bill

The director had tested the vehicle once in a single direction ahead of calling ‘Action’, and then asked Uma Thurman to get behind the wheel of the car for the take, not knowing it would crash.

He admitted years later, not testing the route more than once was “one of my most horrendous mistakes”.

Uma asked the Hollywood star for the footage, which he gladly handed over, and she posted it on Instagram.

And Quentin has been supportive of the actress, despite the turn of events.

He said: “Uma was trepidatious about doing the driving shot. None of us ever considered it a stunt. It was just driving. Maybe we should have, but we didn’t.”

After driving it down the road to check it was all clear, he thought everything would be fine and told her she could ‘totally do this’.

He added to Deadline: “I came in there all happy telling her she could totally do it, it was a straight line, you will have no problem.

“Uma’s response was ‘OK’. Because she believed me. Because she trusted me… I told her it would be safe. And it wasn’t. I was wrong.

“I didn’t force her into the car. She got into the car because she trusted me. And she believed me”.

He asked Uma Thurman to drive the car down the same road but in the opposite direction for the better lighting, but had no idea it would crash. Quentin explained he didn’t think “there was any difference, going in the opposite direction”.

He continued: “Again, that is one of the biggest regrets of my life. As a director, you learn things, and sometimes you learn them through horrendous mistakes.

“That was one of my most horrendous mistakes, that I didn’t take the time to run the road, one more time, just to see what I would see”.

The Tinsel Town director said it affected them ‘for the next two or three years’, and ‘trust was broken’.

‘Justice will never be possible’

Uma shared the footage after Tarantino found it for her, with Thurman telling fans he was remorseful about the car crash.

She wrote at the time: “Quentin Tarantino was deeply regretful and remains remorseful about this sorry event, and gave me the footage years later so I could expose it and let it see the light of day, regardless of it most likely being an event for which justice will never be possible.

“He also did so with full knowledge it could cause him personal harm, and I am proud of him for doing the right thing and for his courage.”

The pair not only worked together on the Silver Screen, but they became a celebrity couple too. She was his ‘muse’ for many flicks, and worked together on Pulp Fiction as well as the Kill Bill movies. In 2014, they were romantically linked, but never confirmed they were dating themselves, keeping it on the down-low.

They reportedly broke up after some time, but it’s not confirmed when.

The footage can be seen below, but viewers are advised over its nature, which may be distressing to some.

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