Will Smith has revealed why he turned down the lead role in Quentin Tarantino’s slave-era drama ‘Django Unchained’.
The star was talking at The Hollywood Reporter’s Actor’s Roundtable discussion when he explained his issues with the movie.
The
lead role of Django, a black slave searching for his wife, who has been
taken by a psychotic plantation owner, eventually went to Jamie Foxx.
“It
was about the creative direction of the story,” Smith said, sitting
opposite Samuel L. Jackson, who took a main role in the movie as
Stephen, the overseer of the plantation slaves.
“To
me, it’s as perfect a story as you could ever want: a guy that learns
how to kill to retrieve his wife that has been taken as a slave. That
idea is perfect. And it was just that Quentin and I couldn’t see [eye to
eye].
“I wanted to make that movie so badly, but I felt the only way was, it had to be a love story, not a vengeance story.
“We can’t look at what happens in Paris [the terrorist attacks] and want to f**k somebody up for that. Violence begets violence.
“I just couldn’t connect to violence being the answer. Love had to be the answer.”
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