 He was also an executive producer for George Clooney's political drama "The Ides of March", an adaptation of Beau Willimon's 2008 play "Farragut North".In 2012, DiCaprio starred as a plantation owner, Calvin Candie, in Quentin Tarantino's spaghetti western, "Django Unchained".After reading the script, DiCaprio was uncomfortable with the extent of racism portrayed in the film, but his costars and Tarantino convinced him not to sugarcoat it.