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TIL Will Smith turned down the role of Django in Django Unchained because it “wasn’t the lead” .

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MbGA TIL that Daniel Day-Lewis, while playing Hamlet, collapsed, sobbing uncontrollably, during the scene where the ghost of Hamlet’s father appears. He later said that he saw the ghost of his own father, and has not appeared on stage since then.
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