“I don’t believe in violence as the reaction to violence,” he said in a resurfaced 2015 interview. “So when I’m looking at this, it’s like, ‘No, no, no. It…
on stage during the ceremony after the comic made a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, and her bald head.
The movie followed Django — a part ultimately filled by Jamie Foxx — and bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz as they take on a journey to save the former’s wife, Broomhilda von Shaft .“I had said yes to Django, but it was more about the creative direction of the story,” Smith said of initially giving it a thumbs-up. “To me, it’s as perfect a story as you could ever want. A guy that learns how to kill to retrieve his wife that has been taken as a slave.
“When I choose movies, I’m choosing the arc. I read the first 35 pages and I read the ending. And to me that idea is perfect,” he continued. “And it was just that Quentin and I couldn’t see [eye to eye]. I wanted to make the greatest love story that African Americans had ever seen from American cinema.”
“I don’t believe in violence as the reaction to violence. So when I’m looking at this, it’s like, ‘No, no, no. It has to be for love. That’s the only way he can retrieve his love is to do this. He can’t want to be this. No, no, no.’
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