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Jamie Foxx Says Leonardo DiCaprio Stopped Reading ‘Django Unchained’ Due to Script’s Racial Slurs. Then Samuel L Jackson Told Him: ‘Say That S— Motherf—er!’
Jamie Foxx says Leonardo DiCaprio did not want to say the N-word so much while reading "Django Unchained," but Samuel L Jackson told him otherwise.
Jamie Foxx recently joined Vanity Fair for a video interview in which he looked back at a handful of his most iconic acting roles, including the title character in Quentin Tarantino’s “ Django Unchained.” One of the Oscar winner’s most notable memories of the film is when co-star Leonardo DiCaprio cut short a reading of the script due to Tarantino’s repeated use of the N-word. The actor said in the Tarantino documentary, “QT8: The First Eight,” that there’s “no dishonesty in anything that [Quentin] writes or how people talk, feel, or speak [in his movies].” Foxx has always said he never had an issue with Tarantino’s “Django” script, once telling Yahoo Entertainment, “I understood the text.
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