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When Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) smashes his hand on the dinner-table in "Django Unchained" (2012), DiCaprio did accidentally crush a small stemmed glass with his palm and did really begin to bleed. He ignored it, stayed in character, and continued with the scene. Director Quentin Tarantino was so impressed that he used this take in the final print, and when he called cut, the room erupted in a standing ovation. DiCaprio's hand was bandaged, and he suggested the idea of smearing blood onto the face of Kerry Washington. Tarantino and Washington both liked this, so Tarantino got some fake blood together.
DiCaprio, whose role marked the first time he played a villain since "The Man in the Iron Mask" (1998), was uncomfortable with how horrible and explicitly racist his character was (In the film, DiCaprio says the n-word 34 times.). However, Tarantino convinced him to be as menacing as possible, saying that if he didn't take it all the way, people would hold it against him forever.
During the filming of one of the dinner scenes, DiCaprio had to stop the scene because he was having "a difficult time" using so many racial slurs. Samuel L. Jackson then pulled him aside telling him, "Motherf**ker, this is just another Tuesday for us."
DiCaprio was originally the first choice for the role of antagonist Colonel Hans Landa in Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" (2009). However, Tarantino decided that a German-speaking actor should portray the character, and the part went to Christoph Waltz, who portrays Dr. King Schultz in this film, which marks Waltz's second film collaboration with Tarantino. DiCaprio can, however, speak some German. (IMDb)
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