Quentin Tarantino Didn’t Cast Idris Elba in ‘Django Unchained’ to Avoid ‘Phony Accents’ in the Film

[BlackMajik]

Quentin Tarantino Didn’t Cast Idris Elba in ‘Django Unchained’ to Avoid ‘Phony Accents’ in the Film

Quentin Tarantino once explained why he took Idris Elba out of the running for ‘Django Unchained’, a film that he’d cast Jamie Foxx for.

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Quentin Tarantino considered many actors for Django Unchained before landing on Jamie Foxx. Idris Elba was reportedly in the running for the role as well. But Tarantino axed the actor from the casting process early.

Tarantino considered a list of some of Hollywood’s top stars for his action feature Django Unchained. He initially had Will Smith in mind for the part, but Smith turned the role down, opening it up for other stars to secure. The Wire alum Elba had a brief opportunity to appear in the Tarantino flick. But Tarantino shot the actor down early since he was British.

“Yeah, Idris is British and this is an American story. I think a problem with a lot of movies that deal with this issue is they cast British actors to play the southerners and it goes a long way to distancing the movie,” Tarantino once told The Sun (via Female First). “They put on their gargoyle masks and they do their phony accents and you are not telling an American story any more. They are just making hay of it, whether it be James Mason in Mandingo or Michael Caine in Hurry Sundown, they get British actors to do this.”

 

[BlackMajik]

Now if somebody like @RehReh played Broomhilda I'd be all for that

 

[UpNext]

I don't see how Idris could have possibly done a better job than Jamie at that role, he made the right call.

 

[Devilinurear]

Didn't he play an Australian in that movie


He is just saying all types of bullshyt

 

[BlackMajik]

Didn't he play an Australian in that movie


He is just saying all types of bullshyt

Remind me again, was that a super throwaway, minor character or not lol

 

[BlackMajik]

Here's the other part of the article

Quentin Tarantino won’t be casting a British actor for his last movie​

Tarantino will soon release his last film The Movie Critic for audiences. The feature will be the director’s swan song, and will be based on a film critic Tarantino used to follow. In an interview with Deadline, he shared that he was searching for an actor around the age range of 35. He already had someone in mind who he figured could nail the role, but he wasn’t sure he’d go with that actor.

But Tarantino assured that whoever he ended up casting wouldn’t be British, even though he had no doubt a British actor would do well.

“The truth of the matter is, yes, obviously, a Brit could pull it off, but I don’t want to cast a Brit,” he said.

Tarantino believed that British actors may have surpassed American actors on the big screen, which informed his The Movie Critic casting.

“Obviously, nothing against the Brits, but we’re living in a really weird time now. I think when people look back on this era of cinema and it’s just all these British actors pretending to be Americans and all these Australian actors pretending to be Americans, it’s like phantoms. Nobody is acting in their own voice,” he said.

 

[Devilinurear]

Remind me again, was that a super throwaway, minor character or not lol

Not really
Django had to con him to escape

 

[BlackMajik]

Not really
Django had to con him to escape

Naw bruh, that character was very minor in the movie

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

Idris is not a black actor

 

[LuuqMaan]

 

[Devilinurear]

Naw bruh, that character was very minor in the movie

Not to me
And his fake accent took me out of the movie

 

[BlackMajik]

Not to me
And his fake accent took me out of the movie

 

[WetinBeDat]

Remind me again, was that a super throwaway, minor character or not lol

If his concern is authenticity, the role's significance is irrelevant

 

[Texas2step]

I don't see how Idris could have possibly done a better job than Jamie at that role, he made the right call.

Disagree, Jamie was outshined by everyone in the movie from Sam Jack, Waltz, n Leo,

 

[BlackMajik]

I've always said one of the weirdest and funniest things ever in cinema is in movies about Ancient Rome you have these people portraying Romans while using a British Accent

Like if you understand history you know how dumb that is lol