Will Smith rejected the role in Django because it wasn't the lead ! Director Quentin Tarantino originally had his sights set on Smith to play Django, a slave who enacts revenge while trying to rescue his wife.
smith says, “Django wasn’t the lead, so it was like, I need to be the lead. The other character was the lead!” The actor went on to say, “I was like, ‘No, Quentin, please, I need to kill the bad guy!’”
Smith added that he nevertheless much enjoyed the final version of the film, for which Waltz ironically won the Oscar for best supporting actor. "I thought it was brilliant," he said. "Just not for me."
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