Actor Samuel L. Jackson felt an "eerie" silence fall over the grounds of the Louisiana plantation where slave western Django Unchained was filmed as his co-star Kerry Washington's character was brutally whipped for the movie.
Director Quentin Tarantino sought the advice of acting icon Sidney Poitier before starting to shoot Django Unchained because he was "uncomfortable" about re-enacting the slave scenes with black actors whose ancestors suffered the same fate.
Quentin Tarantino's new western Django Unchained and Beasts Of The Southern Wild have landed four movie nominations each at the 2013 NAACP Image Awards.
Actress Kerry Washington struggled with sleepless nights while portraying a slave in new movie Django Unchained because it pained her to imagine the suffering her ancestors once endured.
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