'Django Unchained': Tarantino, DiCaprio, Foxx Answer Critics

if you listen carefully that little sound you hear is Oscar buzz getting louder and louder we'll have to wait until Thursday for the official announcement but it seems like one of the movies topping just about everybody's list is D Jango Unchained I sat down with director Quinton Tarantino and two of his stars to get the inside scoop on the film that has everybody talking it's a Nightline interview it's hard to imagine Jamie Fox as a slave or Leonard DiCaprio as a despicable slave owner I'm curious I'm curious what makes you so curious and yet here

they are facing off in one of the most daring movies of the Year D Jango Unchained what's your name d Jango D the latest from the provocative writer director Quinton Tarantino the new film defies classification a Revenge fantasy I like the way you die boy a romance a western and it has everyone talking one critic said recently there is something for everyone to hate in this film there something to make everybody mad I don't think that you do a film like this with Quinton Tarantino and not expect that I think that's what you sign up

for Fox plays a freed slave who goes on a blood soak mission to rescue his wife played by Carrie Washington you scaring me fox says he quickly discovered he'd have to park all his success at the door Quinton looked at me and he says you got to be a slave I know went what is that about and as I looked at my Louis bag and I looked at my Range Rover key and he says if you don't leave that outside we're never going to be able to tell a story which was tough for me because

I worked all my life to get to where I am as Jamie Fox and now he says you're not there if you do it the right way it'll be an iconic film it certainly is a controversial one among the film's many provocations what's your name boy it's liberal some might say promiscuous use of the nword I don't think anybody is actually going out there saying that we use the word more excessively than it was used in 1858 in Mississippi and if that's not the case then they can shut up it's my job to tell the

truth DiCaprio takes a chance in this one too playing Kelvin cande this was one of the most narcissistic self-indulgent racist most despic characters I've ever read in my entire life I can choose to do with my property whatever I so desire not only is the character he plays vile taking this part was a big deal for an actor of his caliber the first time he hasn't been the leading man since his colossal success in Titanic 16 years ago I'm the king of the world pure evil is new for him the first day on set was

incredibly difficult for me Jamie was there you speak let him speak on but I but I have to tell you because I I watched it I watched yeah and he goes he's saying he go buddy and I said what's the deal he said it's tough I said you know what you're human it's supposed to be tough Samuel Jackson quickly said hey MF get over there it's just another Tuesday for us and let's get going of course it's not just the language that's loaded but the topic itself slavery including a particularly painful scene where Carrie Washington

is whipped a scene the filmmakers won't let us show you everybody people on the trucks people in catering just stood still Quinton had a great thing that he would do on his sets he would play music in between scenes this particular day I asked for a certain piece of music as Fred Hammond no weapons so as Carrie is you know being strapped up we played that song and the song was no weapons formed against me sh Prosper I looked over and saw a girl who had never been on a set before and she was one

of the extras and her hands went up like this start testifying and she started testifying and as everybody had tears in their eyes you felt the ancestors you felt the significance of why we're doing this film and showing it this way for all the dark moments the film is also unexpectedly funny anyone bring any extra bags no nobody brought an extra bag and that humor has raised hackles too ladies and gentlemen Fox himself got stung at the thorny intersection of comedy and race when he hosted Saturday Night Live last month and I kill all the

white people in the movie How great is that the blogosphere lit up with complaints of Reverse Racism fox wants to clear the air I've never in my life felt like because of what I went through and being called as a kid that I wanted to go out and kill all the white people I've never felt that and I can't find any black people that actually feel that way the only thing I wanted to be able to do was live my life be in love with who I want to be in love with have my life

spent freely without someone judging me because the color of my skin and that of course is all D Jango wants too but getting there is a brutal and bloody Affair for DiCaprio some real blood was spilled he broke a glass in this scene but kept on acting if you care to join me in the Parlor we will be serving quiet cake that was a fun part is watching their reactions honestly cuz boom it happened and then I open my hand and then Blood starts pouring everywhere and I saw Jamie go yeah and Quinton Quinton like

had goes but only a drop in the bucket for the reigning king of Carnage Tarantino who started 20 years ago with the extremely violent Reservoir Dogs not surprisingly D Jango is drawing fire for its use of violence in Shakespeare's time he was blamed all the time for the Anarchy in the streets so you don't see any connection at all culture I don't have any responsibility of what a whacked out crazy person might do but for all the controver y surrounding D Jango the laundry list of its possible offenses and insensitivities fox has a suggestion what

I tell people is this before you form an opinion I've seen people come out of the movie going into to hate it I'm going into say I don't like Quinton and I and Jamie Fox teeth and all this other kind of whatever it is and Leo look too good and I just don't like none of this I'm going I've seen people come out of the movie wow I take it all back they had me laughing they had me rooting and chill because you're not rooting for the black guy to kill the white people you're rooting

for the guy who just wants to be in love with this woman