Legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino told actor Jamie Foxx was being &ldquo;too cool&rdquo;while filming his slave role in &lsquo;Django Unchained&rsquo;.
The 57-year-old actor starred in the 2012 action-western as slave-turned-bounty hunter Django in the movie.
During an appearance on &lsquo;The Graham Norton Show&rsquo;, Foxx said: &ldquo;I worked with him on &lsquo;Django Unchained&rsquo;, 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.&rdquo;
Set in 1858 Texas where the slave trade thrives, &lsquo;Django Unchained&rsquo; follows Foxx in the title role as he is freed by bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz played by Christoph Waltz and goes on a mission to save his wife Bromhilda von Schaft essayed by Kerry Washington from a plantation run by the despicable Leonardo DiCaprio&rsquo;s Calvin Candie and his sinister servant Stephen, who was played by Samuel L. Jackson.
While &lsquo;Django Unchained&rsquo; has several scenes that some could find distressing, including a sequence where one of Calvin&rsquo;s slaves is mauled to death by a dog as punishment for attempting to escape the plantation, Tarantino previously insisted &ldquo;what happened during slavery times is a thousand times worse&rdquo; than what is shown on screen in his movie.
Speaking on NPR&rsquo;s &lsquo;Fresh Air&rsquo; programme, he said: &ldquo;If I were to show it a thousand times worse, to me, that wouldn't be exploitative, that would just be how it is. If you can't take it, you can't take it.&rdquo;
While he is happy with the movie, the filmmaker admitted he was concerned he would be forced to cut one of his favourite scenes from the flick - in which a group of Ku Klux Klan members argue about their masks made out of bags.
During an appearance on the &lsquo;Empire Film Podcast&rsquo;, Tarantino said: &ldquo;That has as much hysterical laughter as I&rsquo;ve ever heard in any screening of any movie, and it happens all over the world.
&ldquo;That was everyone&rsquo;s favourite scene in the script. (Sony executive) Amy Pascal, half the reason she wanted to make the movie at Columbia was because of that scene.&rdquo;
&ldquo;But it was one of those scenes that it was such a hit on the page, I started getting intimidated about would it be that good in the movie? Does everyone love it so much on the page (that it&rsquo;s) gonna lose something in the translation once I get a bunch of actors playing the roles? Because it&rsquo;s not based on one performance, it&rsquo;s a whole lot of people. And it happens at a weird part of the movie.&rdquo;
&mdash;IANS

Quentin Tarantino (L) Jamie Foxx —File Photo

Tarantino was very strict & said that I need to let go all the trapping of life to make sense of this role: Foxx

'Too Cool to be Slave' Says Tarantino to Jamie Foxx

Tarantino was very strict & said that I need to let go all the trapping of life to make sense of this role: Foxx

January 18, 2025 | 15:25 IST