*“Django Unchained,” still the number film outside of the US, has caused some of the most passionate discussions and debates in a long time.
But something less controversial came up recently when Quentin Tarantino admitted Idris Elba was on the list of possible cast members, but he didn’t recruit him because he’s British.
“Yeah, Idris is British and this is an American story. I think a problem with a lot of movies that deal with this issue is they cast British actors to play the Southerners and it goes a long way to distancing the movie. They put on their gargoyle masks and they do their phony accents and you are not telling an American story any more. They are just making hay of it, whether it be James Mason in Mandingo or Michael Caine in Hurry Sundown, they get British actors to do this.”
Check out the full interview at Indie Wire’s Shadow and Act.
Idris is flawless with accents!! That’s not
an excuse. Or shouldn’t be one. He was
Awesome in THE WIRE. Jamie is great!
A BS excuse don’t work though….
Thank god Idris Elba was not in “Django Unchained”. He is 100% African and should not be in an offensive movie using the N word.
Sorry Elba is too tall and mature.
Foxx owns this role Django and is was a better match up with Broomhilda and Schultz!
What was the other guy name,that was in the cast. Wasn’t he British?
Idris could not have pulled it off.I love me some Jaime Fox and he did a spectacular job.He barely got it down in the “Wire” in terms of his western accent.