“Just read the script”: Leonardo DiCaprio’s $449M Movie Director Was Left With No Choice But to Remove Samuel L. Jackson’s Scenes

Samuel L. Jackson has continued to impress fans with his marvelous acting career that has been spawning for over four decades. He has already garnered a loyal fandom globally due to his Jedi Mace Windu role in the Star Wars franchise and Nick Fury in MCU.

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Knowing for putting all his efforts into portraying his characters, he once got indulged quite into his role that the film director had to eventually cut off his scenes. 

Samuel L. Jackson’s Reaction When He Was Offered Django Unchained

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The film in question is Django Unchained which featured an ensemble cast including Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Samuel L. Jackson. Quentin Tarantino’s directorial delved deep into the concept of slavery, which turned out to be one of the major achievements in the film industry. 

During a press conference, the MCU actor talked about his casting in the 2012 film sharing that the filmmaker, Quentin Tarantino approached him with the script. He had no idea about the role he was about to offer as he shared,

“When he was sending Django, he actually didn’t want to tell me that I wasn’t going to Django. He said, ‘Well, the character’s Stephen’ and I was like, Who’s Stephen?”

While he was unsure of what would be his role in the movie, he was down to portray Stephen Warren’s role.

“Just read the script, I read it and I called him back and said, ‘So you want me to be the most despicable Negro in the history of cinema!’ We were both like laughing together and we said: ‘Yaaaaah! Let’s get on that!'”

Things eventually set in motion as the filming kickstarted but he revealed that his scenes had to go through major edits.

Quentin Tarantino Removed Samuel L. Jackson’s Scenes

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Jackson is known for putting in his best efforts to bring out his powerful performance on screen which is one of the best qualities an actor must possess. However, his abilities were shown a little too much which made his character quite twisted in the 2012 film. It eventually became the prime reason why his scenes were unable to be included in the final cut.

He revealed that the film director decided to take that action to save his character. He edited out all the really bad things that I did in the movie. “He said, ‘I don’t want anybody to kill you.'”

Jackson is not new to violent characters anymore however his intense acting in this film even concerned Tarantino, who eventually chose to trim his scenes out of the film.

As for what the reason was, he shared, “Stephan’s kind of nasty character.”  The film grossed over $426 million receiving positive responses from critics and moviegoers.

Django Unchained is available on Prime Video. 

Source: Film Memory