2012’s Django Unchained brings Quentin Tarantino‘s signature style to the western film genre. His hyperviolent, yet highly-witty aesthetic supercharges the movie. However, Django Unchained star Jamie Foxx once recalled some rather ruthless direction from Tarantino. Nevertheless, Foxx is proud that he signed on for the project.
Jamie Foxx stars in the title role in ‘Django Unchained’
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Django Unchained follows Django (Foxx) as a slave. A German bounty hunter named Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) frees him 2 years before the Civil War would take place. Together, they hunt the South’s most vicious criminals. Their adventures take them to a plantation owner named Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).
Foxx stars in the lead role of Tarantino’s western drama that also has a romantic element to it. Django is intent on facing Calvin because he’s holding his wife, Broomhilda von Shaft (Kerry Washington), as a slave. He won’t rest until he frees her from the brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
Jamie Foxx recalls Quentin Tarantino’s ruthless direction
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The Howard Stern Show talked with Foxx about his experience filming Django Unchained with Tarantino. However, the story isn’t quite what host Howard Stern expected to hear. Foxx described Tarantino as, “a tyrant, like: ‘Do not f*** my film up.’”