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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Quentin Tarantino

It isn't long 'til Quentin Tarantino's seventh movie Django Unchained hits theatres, and going by the early reactions it's looking to be a doozy. After he's brought us defining works in the gangster, blaxploitation, samurai, war and slasher genres, we're practically giddy to see just what Tarantino has done with the spaghetti western. So whilst we wait for Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz to don their cowboy hits and ride out to meet Leonard DiCaprio, we've put together a list of 10 things you probably didn't know about Quentin Jerome Tarantino to help pass the time. We won't count his middle name - "Jerome" - as one.
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Published: Dec 3, 2012 11:46 am

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10. Leonardo DiCaprio personally requested his role in Tarantino’s Django Unchained

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We often assume that directors get in touch with actors they feel would be right for certain parts (especially directors like Quentin Tarantino), although in the case of Django Unchained, Leonardo DiCaprio called Tarantino after reading the script and enquired about the part of Calvin Candie. The two had been hanging out on and off for 15 years or so, and Tarantino made a habit of sending DiCaprio his scripts (just in case).

“He got this one [Django Unchained] and really liked Calvin Candie,” Tarantino told Playboy earlier this year. “Leo was younger than I had initially written, but I read it again and could see no reason why the character couldn’t be younger. And since I’m hitting hard this notion of the American South re-creating European aristocracy in this amateur make-it-up-as-you-go-along fashion, the notion of him as the boy emperor was cool.”

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