Uma Thurman breaks silence on Weinstein and Tarantino

If an actor/actress doesn't feel safe/comfortable at all doing a stunt, then they shouldn't have to do it. I don't care who you are as a director and/or what kind of film you're making.

and the two child actors.

That'd be something. (note: not that I want it to but I'm be surprised if it did happen)

That would be terrible

Actually, full article at New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/opinion/sunday/this-is-why-uma-thurman-is-angry.html

Including video of the car crash that resulted after Tarantino forced Thurman to drive instead of using a stunt double.

What Thurman says about Tarantino in the article really changes how I feel about him.
He's long been one of my favorite directors.

I don't remember the details of the film well enough to know.
But Thurman says the studio & Tarantino refused to let her see that specific footage for 15 years, until just recently. (They had offered to let her see it, but only on the condition that she gave up any rights to sue over it.)

The irony is that, at least from the specific camera angle shown in that clip, you can't see the driver's face anyway. So it wouldn't have made a difference (to the audience) if a double had done the driving.

No question about that: Weinstein, and his enablers, was far, far worse. He knew exactly what he was doing.

I'm sure Tarantino thought that what he was asking Thurman to do was safe and reasonable. I can't believe he would actually ask his star to do a stunt that he really thought could seriously injure them.

What I do fault QT for is (1) failing as the director to foster an environment in which technical staff could come to him and tell him when they thought a prop or stunt was unsafe (assuming that he wasn't actually told in this case); and (2), the real problem, not supporting an actor who was injured, after the fact. It's like with the Catholic Church and the priest sex abuse, or the USA Gymnastics/US Olympic Committee, or MSU/Penn State. When someone has been injured on your watch, you need to step up and do right by them, not try to suppress it/shoo them away/worry about protecting your own interests.

The NYT article also mentions that Tarantino inserted himself into scenes and personally spit on Uma and choked her. I can't see any a-list actress working with him ever again after this degrading behavior has come out. He's one sick pervert.