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"Will Smith has revealed why he turned down the lead role in Django Unchained. The After Earth star was originally courted for the role of slave-turned-bounty hunter Django before Jamie Foxx signed up for the part.   Smith told EW that he said no to Tarantino because he didn&amp;#039;t feel the Django role had enough screen time. &amp;quot;Django wasn&amp;#039;t the lead, so it was like, I need to be the lead. The other character was the lead!&amp;quot; he said, referring to Christoph Waltz&amp;#039;s Dr King Schultz. &amp;quot;I was like, &amp;#039;No, Quentin, please, I need to kill the bad guy!&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Smith admitted that he was a fan of the finished film, which won two Academy Awards and earned more than $400 million at the worldwide box office. &amp;quot;I thought it was brilliant,&amp;quot; he commented. &amp;quot;Just not for me.&amp;quot; Watch the trailer for Django Unchained below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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