Los Angeles: Actor Sacha Baron Cohen is the latest to join the star-studded cast of Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained.
The Borat actor is reportedly is in final negotiations to play "a gambler who buys Django's wife as a female companion."
Though the role is small, Tarantino was concerned about choosing a suitable actor for the part as the character is vital to the story.
Django Unchained follows the story of Django, a freed slave who under the tutelage of a German bounty hunter Ace Woody becomes a bounty hunter himself.
"After assisting Woody in taking down some bad guys for profit, he tracks down his slave wife and liberates her from an evil plantation owner, variety.com reports.
The cast includes Leonardo DiCaprio as the film's villain, Calvin Candie; Jamie Foxx as Django; Christoph Waltz as Ace Woody, the bounty hunter on Candie's tail; Kerry Washington as Django's wife, Broomhilda; and Samuel L. Jackson as an outspoken slave.
The Borat actor is reportedly is in final negotiations to play "a gambler who buys Django's wife as a female companion."
Though the role is small, Tarantino was concerned about choosing a suitable actor for the part as the character is vital to the story.
"After assisting Woody in taking down some bad guys for profit, he tracks down his slave wife and liberates her from an evil plantation owner, variety.com reports.
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