What If Will Smith Played Django In Tarantino's Django: Unchained

This shows Smith's weakness as an actor and why he probably never deserved an Oscar in the first place. I say "probably" because I haven't seen "King Richard" and I don't plan to see it.

Smith has always played it safe. His popularity rests on his role as the token black who doesn't offend white audiences.

Smith wanted to "whitewash" Django. A director like Tarantino would never kowtow to this self-entitled hack Smith.

But Smith's display at the Oscar's certainly tarnished his image as "The Good Negro". Lol.

He might as well play ghetto now because he confirmed the stereotype of the violent black man with no self control.

I skimmed the link and think Smith had some good ideas, some bad ideas.

The part when Django returns to Candieland and kills everything in sight was over the top ridiculous in its gore. The movie also ran a scene or two too long.

As far as Smith's acting skill in bringing life to Django, I think he would have done a fine job. I really did appreciate Foxx's rawness and think it translated particularly well to a person held in enslavement and tortured and think Foxx was an excellent choice and ultimately a better choice than Smith..

Will smith would’ve been horrible as Django, jamie foxx was the perfect Django and he’s basically the cool version of Will smith, and here’s why I think will smith is kind of a wimp, he starred in bad boys 1 and 2 originally, shot people left and right, and was having a blast, but then turns down Django because it was “too violent”, what a wimp

Good. Glad. I disliked him pre-slap. He always looks like he's about to laugh, and you can feel his ego through the screen. Wonderful movie and I can't imagine anyone else in any of the roles.

Aw hell no!

I bet he would have pushed back against letting Christopher Waltz dominate the first 2/3 of the movie, and Samuel L. Jackson dominate everything that Waltz left for the other actors. Seriously, the movie is named after Django, but he isn't allowed to take center screen until the movie is 2/3 along, and by then we think of him as an unimportant character! Tarantino really is a problematic director, all of his movies have huge flaws, some of which could have been fixed if there had been a little bit of perspective about them movie as a whole.

So I'd bet real money that Smith didn't get the role, because he wanted Django to dominate the film from the get-go, and Tarantino decided he'd rather make the movie he wanted to make than one that was actually about Django.