Jamie Foxx Says Leonardo DiCaprio Struggled With 'Django Unchained' Script, Reveals How Another Costar Responded

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Jamie Foxx recalled Leonardo DiCaprio struggling on the set of their movie Django Unchained.

The actors shared the screen in the 2012 movie, which took place ahead of the Civil War. While speaking to Vanity Fair, Jamie revisited the movie and revealed that Leonardo had a hard time with the language in the script. Keep reading to find out more… “Here was the thing, though… The subject matter – the N-word, specifically – Leo had a hard time saying the N-word,” he told the outlet. “We’re doing a read and Leo says, ‘Hey, guys.

Cut! I just can’t do this. This is not me.’” Jamie added that their costar Samuel L. Jackson stepped up and told Leonardo to keep going. “Samuel L.

Jackson goes, ‘Say that s-it, motherf-cker! It’s just another Tuesday. F-ck ‘em,’” he said. The actor had his own advice for Leonardo, too. “I told Leo, I said, ‘Leo, you know in slavery days we would never talk to each other,” Jamie said. “I’m not your friend.