Will Smith Reveals Why He Turned Down Role In "Django Unchained" Movie

The Django character in the very controversial Django Unchained movie was meant to be played by Will Smith, but was eventually played by Jamie Foxx, who I feel did a great job by the way. Anyway, Will Smith has given his reason for turning down Quentin Tarantino's offer to play Django-

 "Django wasn't the lead, so it was like, I need to be the lead. The other character (Christoph Waltz) was the lead! I was like, 'No, Quentin, please, I need to kill the bad guy! I thought it was brilliant, Just not for me."

Well, I guess everyone has their preferences  I do respect Will Smith for always getting lead roles in most of the movies he appears in. Even Denzel Washington doesn't get lead roles the way Will Smith gets them...I mean for a black man in Hollywood. But, Jamie always does a great acting job. Jamie Foxx did such a great job that he almost overshadowed the lead role in the Django Unchained movie. And, at the Oscars a few weeks ago, Christoph Waltz (the lead character in the movie) won an academy award for the role of a supporting actor...that means the Oscar organizers classified Jamie Foxx as the lead character in the movie.