Kerry Washington says she escaped even more brutal scenes that were cut from Django Unchained

Jamie Foxx and Kerry Washington

Like most of Quentin Tarantino’s work, Django Unchained is known for its graphic violence. What sets it apart is the specifically racialized violence of the film, focusing on slavery in the American South. The finished product—which starred Jamie Foxx as Django—was controversial enough on its own. But according to Foxx’s co-star Kerry Washington, the original script was even more brutal, featuring scenes where her character “escaped abuse running naked down the street” and was subjected to a “terrifyingly brutal rape scene.”

In Washington’s new memoir Thicker Than Water (via The Daily Beast), the actor suspects Foxx might have interceded on her behalf right before filming the graphic sequence. “Jamie and Quentin stood in the corner. Both men were looking down at the dirt floor, and as I walked toward them, Tarantino announced that we were all going home. The scene would be cut from the script,” she writes. “Maybe it was something Jamie had said to Quentin days before that had finally seeped in, maybe something shifted for Quentin standing in that cabin. Either way, it was the answer to the prayers I had been whispering on my knees.”

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