She says of the script change in her memoir: “It was the answer to my prayers.”
In her memoirs, actress Kerry Washington talks, among other things, about her time when she stood in front of the camera with Jamie Foxx for Tarantino’s work “Django Unchained” and publishes new information about the filming at the time.
In 2012, Washington played the role of Shaft’s Broomhilda in the Quentin Tarantino film Django Unchained. The Daily Beast examined excerpts from her book, Thicker Than Water, in which she explains that the original script included scenes in which she would run naked down a street to avoid abuse. A brutal rape scene was also supposed to have been planned, which she had concerns about.
Both scenes were ultimately never filmed. Kerry Washington still doesn’t know how this happened. She remembers a moment during filming: “Jamie and Quentin were standing in the corner. Both men looked at the dirty floor, and as I walked toward them, Tarantino announced that we were all going home.”
Regarding her assessment of why the scenes were so suddenly deleted from the script, the 46-year-old wrote: “Maybe it was something that Jamie had said to Quentin days before and that finally leaked out, maybe something changed for Quentin when he was standing in this hut. Either way, it was the answer to the prayers I had been whispering on my knees.”
Tarantino himself has not yet commented on her statements.
The film last hit the headlines in 2022 after Kanye West accused Quentin Tarantino of stealing the idea for “Django Unchained” from him. The rapper claimed he told Tarantino and Foxx about his idea during a video shoot. However, these accusations were denied by Tarantino.