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Jamie Foxx was told by Quentin Tarantino he was ‘too cool’ for slave role in Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino told Jamie Foxx he was being “too cool”while filming his slave role in ‘Django Unchained’.The 57-year-old actor starred in the 2012 action-western as slave-turned-bounty hunter Django, though he was told by the director, 61, that he had to “let all the trappings of [his] real life go” in order to portray the character properly. During an appearance on ‘The Graham Norton Show’, Foxx said: “I worked with him on ‘Django Unchained’, and he was very strict. “I was playing a slave, but he told me I was too cool to be a slave and that I needed to let all the trappings of my real life go. Once I stripped all those things away, the role made sense.”‘Django Unchained’ is set in 1858 Texas where the slave trade thrives, and follows Foxx in the title role as he isis freed by bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) and...
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  • 1/17/2025
  • by Alex Getting
  • Bang Showbiz

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