"We danced for three hours straight": Tarantino reveals the full story of his acquaintance with Daniela Peak - voila! culture

Tarantino and Daniela Peake (Daniela Peake with Quentin Tarantino after the birth of their son (Photo: Nir Pekin))

Director Quentin Tarantino was a guest on Howard Stern's popular radio show a few days ago and told how he met his wife Danielle Peak.

Some of the details were of course known to all of us, but some may be new to some of you.

"I met her many years before we got married. I was in Israel for the launch of the movie 'Disrespectful Bastards'. I met her in a club in Tel Aviv, we danced all night, for three hours straight. I had to throw my shirt away afterwards because it smelled like a dead horse."

Stern asked Tarantino if he knew that night she was the one.

"I've never had an evening like this, and I've had good evenings in my life," replied Tarantino.

"She is simply a knockout, beautiful. Her father is also the most famous pop singer in Israel, Zvika Pick. Everyone knows her in Israel. She grew up in the spotlight, like a princess. But after this evening, it just faded away between us. She moved on with her life and I moved on with my life. Then six years later I was invited on a cruise and met a family friend of the "Pikims" there. She told me 'I'm a good friend of Daniela', and I answered her 'she's so great.' I said wonderful things about her under the assumption that she would return home to Tel Aviv, Meet Daniela and tell her, 'I saw Quentin and he said nice things about you. That was the plan.'

Tarantino tells how he met his wife Daniela

But plans are separate - and reality is separate.

"Her friend went back to her room on the ship and called her," Tarantino told Howard Stern.

"She said to me, 'I just talked to Daniela and it turns out that she just broke up with her boyfriend. When you're done here on the cruise, call her.' For me. We decided to meet, without promises about the future. I told her that she shouldn't come to America and I shouldn't come to Tel Aviv and we arranged to meet in Paris. We wanted it to work out, we went to Paris and we've been together ever since."

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