10 Actors Who Gave Their WORST Performance In Great Movies

Django Unchained is an undeniably great film—a tighter story than its ambitious predecessor Inglorious Basterds, Tarantino’s second foray in historical cinema saw him ram together the solemn slave film subgenre and the cartoony spaghetti western to inimitable effect.

As the central titular hero Jamie Foxx is bruised, brutal, and effortlessly charming nonetheless, Leo shines in a rare villainous turn and previews some of the shades of compromised masculinity he’d further investigate in the more recent Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Christoph Waltz is magnetic, proving Inglorious Basterds was no one-off fluke. And that’s not even mentioning a vulnerable but believably strong Kerry Washington and Samuel L. Jackson’s incredible Stephen, one of his most underrated roles.

So what went wrong? Really, in a film where even minor roles are filled out by the likes of Miami Vice’s Don Johnson and character actor extraordinaire Walter Goggins, what would it take to throw this film?

Well, how about a turn from the director himself, cropping up at a pivotal point in the story to offer one of cinema’s most inexplicable attempted accents in the history of the medium?

We’re not sure where Tarantino’s maybe-Australian cameo character comes from, but we know where they’re headed, and mercifully it’s back offscreen quick enough to not derail his own classic.