Quentin Tarantino rides into Comic-Con with western ‘Django Unchained’
Posted July 15, 2012 5:33 pm.
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Castmates Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Kerry Washington and Walton Goggins hit the Comic-Con carpet for director Quentin Tarantino’s bounty-hunting movie Django Unchained in San Diego on Saturday.
Foxx stars as Django, a freed slave who is befriended by a German dentist-turned-bounty hunter, played by Waltz.
Waltz helps Django free his wife (Kerry Washington) from evil plantation owner Calvin Candie, played by Leonardo DiCaprio.
“One of the things that really drew me to the character of Broomhilda is that she really is the princess who’s rescued from the tower,” Washington said.
“Particularly for a black woman that’s not really the experience that we’ve had historically and that we’ve seen often. I thought it was really special, because so much of the institution of slavery was really about breaking up families and not making it possible to have healthy marriages or have marriages at all. So the idea that in this world of slavery that love could conquer this evil institution and that a man could rescue his wife out of the chains of slavery, I just thought that was so beautiful and important and I love that Broomhilda gets to be that princess in the tower.”
Waltz said Tarantino wrote the bounty hunter role specifically with him in mind.
“To have a writer like Quentin, write something with you in mind, it’s not that difficult to figure it out and get behind it and try to suss out the intricacies while being swept away,” Waltz said.
Early trailers reveal that there’s enough James Brown on the soundtrack, spaghetti western inspired shoot-outs and cool dudes talking Tarantino-ese to get the blood racing.
Django Unchained hits theaters on December 25.
