Now Smith has revealed he simply felt the part of dentist-turned-bounty hunter Dr King Schultz was the real lead.
Tarantino confirmed last month that Django Unchained begins with German-born bounty hunter Dr King Schultz Christoph Waltzz) freeing Jamie Foxx's title character and helping to train him in combat so that he can return to the plantation where his wife is incarcerated in the hope of liberating her.
Collider suggests Captain Marvel could replace Africa, a proposed biopic of the real-life fossil hunter turned protector of elephants Richard Leakey, on the Oscar-winning actor's film-making slate.
We already knew Django Unchained would be about an escaped slave (Jamie Foxx) who teams up with a German bounty hunter (Waltz) to take down the owner of the plantation where he was previously held captive, and where his wife, Broomhilda, is still imprisoned.
His fiancee, Amal Alamuddin, is described in terms more appropriate to a wild animal hunter than a humanitarian lawyer: she "tamed" him, she "hooked" him, she "tied him down"; because Clooney is not just a handsome bachelor, you see: he is a wild leopard.
This time he's Dr King Schultz, a former dentist who's shifted his focus from filling holes to making holes as a bounty hunter.
Because a family needed both plant foods and meat, a masculine female hunter, in turn, usually married a feminine female, to provide these complementary gender roles for economic survival.
Bellamy is a hunter of the old school – a farmer with a broad Gloucestershire accent who has hunted all his life.
"Lovely music," says the stately, somewhat forbidding, weatherbeaten woman sitting on a dark bay Irish hunter at the edge of a field in the Cotswolds.
"The germ of an idea was a slave who becomes a bounty hunter and goes after the white men [who tortured him], before the civil war," Tarantino said.
Milan's stockhouses - outlets that sell surplus designer stock - have also been attributed jewel-in-the crown status recently but unless you're a diehard bargain hunter, they're not the gems they seem.
