Her warm friendship with director
Quentin Tarantino (who calls her his muse) nearly ended following an accident on the set of
Kill Bill: Volume II (2004). Tarantino had apparently pressured her into doing a car stunt that went wrong, causing chronic neck and knee injuries that persist to this day. The production company, Miramax, withheld all proof of the accident unless Thurman agreed to sign a waiver (which she refused to do), releasing them and Tarantino from any liability. Despite Tarantino's profuse apologies, things remained very acrimonious between the two, until they finally reconciled their friendship nearly a decade later. Thurman only came forward with the incident in 2018 after Tarantino had finally given her access to footage from the accident, and Tarantino stated multiple times that he regretted asking her to do the stunt in the first place since the footage never even made it into the film.
