In this handout image provided by Sony, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz attend the ‘Django Unchained’ photo call at Summer of Sony 4 Spring Edition held at The Ritz Carlton Hotel on April 15, 2012 in Cancun, Mexico. (Photo by Matt Dames/Sony via Getty Images)
In this handout image provided by Sony, Kerry Washington attends the “Django Unchained” photo call at Summer of Sony 4 Spring Edition held at The Ritz Carlton Hotel on April 15, 2012 in Cancun, Mexico. (Photo by Matt Dames/Sony via Getty Images)
In this handout image provided by Sony, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz attend the “Django Unchained” photo call at Summer of Sony 4 Spring Edition held at The Ritz Carlton Hotel on April 15, 2012 in Cancun, Mexico. (Photo by Matt Dames/Sony via Getty Images)
In this handout image provided by Sony, actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx attend the “Django Unchained” party at Summer of Sony 4 Spring Edition held at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on April 14, 2012 in Cancun, Mexico. (Photo by Matt Dames/Sony via Getty Images)
From Ebony.com: When the trailer was released earlier this month for Django: Unchained, Black folks didn’t quite know what to make of it. It’s clear it’s a Quentin Tarantino film—the blood shed, the fast-moving dialogue and the James Brown soundtrack are the Tarantino-esque trimmings we’ve all come to love. But it’s wrapped around—and set in—pre-Civil War America.
But a movie set during slavery? Turns out, this isn’t just another slave movie.The film is still shooting right now, but the hero—played by Academy Award winning actor and comedian Jamie Foxx— is a slave who gets his get back.
Foxx plays who we imagined we’d all be should we have lived through such a horrific time. And that’s exactly the kind of film Reginald Hudlin—Tarantino’s producer on this project—has been longing to see. It doesn’t release until Christmas (they’re still filming in New Orleans right now), but six months out, it’s got the kind of buzz that makes Hollywood studio execs ridiculously happy.
Hudlin who along with actress Kerry Washington previewed an extended seven-minute clip of the film at the National Association of Black Journalists convention on Thursday evening in New Orleans—talks with EBONY.com about the movie, slavery and why Tarantino loves telling our stories.
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