Although Will Smith it was the first choice of Quentin Tarantino To play the protagonist of Django Unchained, he finally turned it down after several meetings and after reading the script, although it was not known for what reason.
Now, in an interview with the medium Entertainment Weekly, revealed that turned down the role because, despite the fact that he is the one who gave the film the title, he was not the true protagonist of the film as claimed by Smith, who wanted to be the center of attention of the film.
The actor stated that “Django was not the protagonist. So it was like… I need to be the main character, which the other character was ”. Despite this, Smith assures that he tried by all means to persuade Tarantino to make his Django the pillar on which the narration rests.
He told him that he needed to kill the bad guy in the movie, but finally things went the way they were and the importance of the movie and the leading weight was carried by Django's companion, who was finally the protagonist of the movie played by Christoph Waltz, work with which he won the Oscar for best supporting actor.
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