Television and radio presenter Jameela Jamil has criticised Quentin Tarantino for casting ‘attacker’ Emile Hirsch in his forthcoming film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Hirsch, who joined a star-studded cast of Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Burt Reynolds and Dakota Fanning and more, will play the role of Jay Sebring.

However, Jamil has hit out at Tarantino’s decision to include Hirsch after he was arrested for attacking a woman three years ago. That woman, it seems, was Jamil’s best friend.

“Cool. Emile Hirsch strangled my tiny female best friend until she blacked out at a party in front of dozens of witnesses at Sundance Film Festival (and was convicted) but Tarantino just cast him in a movie,” she wrote on Twitter, branding the move as an “intense case of rich white male privilege.”

She continued to say that Hirsch “Left her with three years of PTSD and never paid for her treatment, and still hasn’t apologized to her,” she added.

Court papers say that Hirsch approached Daniele Bernfeld at Tao Nightclub and asked why she looked “so tough” before allegedly adding that he called the woman a “rich kid who should not be at Sundance”.

Hirsch is then said to have grabbed Bernfeld. The court papers say she pushed him away, only for Hirsch to follow her and put her in a chokehold from behind.