There’s still a lengthy wait until we get to see Quentin Tarantino’s next feature, but Samuel L Jackson shares some details about Django Unchained...
It’s seemed like an age since Inglorious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino’s last film, was released and whilst our friends across the pond will get the Django Unchained in December, us here in the UK however have to wait until January 2013 to see it.
Even with the film being some months away, it hasn’t stopped one of its stars, Samuel L Jackson, from discussing his role in the movie. Jackson plays Stephe,n a slave who’s owned by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Calvin Candie. And what got him to sign up for the film?
"It's a Tarantino movie so there's no thought that goes into, 'am I gonna do it or not? It's kinda like, 'I'm doing that,' because I know it's going to be great."
He added that "It's definitely an opportunity to explore a place in my history that I haven't thought about and deal with it in an honest and very dramatic way."
"Quentin pays homage to a lot of different genres, he would like to say this is a spaghetti western, and I guess in ways it is. And I guess when you start talking about Farewell Uncle Tom, Mandinga, Mandingo… all those things play in there too But it's not like that's not something that's part of the fabric of this country, and it happened, we'll deal with as honestly, and in as Tarantinoesque a fashion as we can."
Django Unchained is one that we’re very much looking forward to....
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