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Quentin’s Tarantino’s Southern spaghetti Western Django Unchained has been delighting cinema audiences as Jamie Foxx blazes his way across the screen looking for revenge on his former slave masters.
But the Ray star has spoken candidly about nearly missing out on the part to Fresh Prince of Bel Air actor Will Smith, advising Quentin on the soundtrack and doing his own stunts to impress the Pulp Fiction director so he bagged the iconic part.
He said: “I heard that Quentin had cast Will Smith as Django so I fired my management. The part became open and I went in and auditioned for him.”
Jamie is no one-trick pony, and did all his own horse-riding stunts in Django Unchained.
Quentin Tarantino asked Jamie to do the horse-riding stunt as the stunt-man fell.
Jamie said: “Check out the scene where I have to ride bareback – that was real.”
The Hollywood hunk explained: “I’m from Texas and have my own horse, a female horse called Cheetah. I had to learn all the tricks and stunts.”
On Cheetah, he said: “She’s got the temperament of a black female horse and didn’t take to being grabbed by the mouth.”
The actor-singer also advised Quentin on the soundtrack and wrote and sang his ditty a capella at his office instead of laying down the track on a disc because the Death Proof director doesn’t like computers.
Jamie played piano and sang a rendition of Ray Charles’ I Got A Woman. He advised Quentin: “You need to do a soundtrack, not licensed tracks.”
“I’m not a rapper but I’ve got some verses. Here’s what I think I should say… I need 100 black coffins for 100 bad men, 100 black graves to lay they ass in. 100 preachers with a black sermon to tell.
“From 100 black bibles while we send them all to Hell. I need 100 black coffins.”
Heavy.
Django Unchained is now showing at FACT Liverpool:
http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Picturehouse_At_Fact/film/Django_Unchained/