Kerry Washington talks Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained'

The actress, who stars alongside Jamie Foxx, Leonardo Di Caprio, Samuel L Jackson and Christoph Waltz in the upcoming Western, has described her character Broomhilda's strength.

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"It's a different kind of strength," Washington told Collider. "It's more of an emotional, spiritual, psychological strength.

"For me, one of the things that I really loved about this character is that she exists in a time when, historically, black women were, out of necessity, independently strong."

She went on to describe the relationship between Broomhilda and her husband Django (Foxx), who sets out to rescue her after she is kidnapped by a brutal plantation owner.

"I love that this film is about two people who, even though they exist in a time in our Constitution where they're only 3/5 of a human being, they so believe in their own humanity and so believe in the love that they share and their illegal marriage, that they risk life to find each other.

"The fact that he travels across the country and goes into the depths of hell to save this woman, in this time period, was so triumphant."

A new promo clip from Django Unchained was released earlier this month.

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