Stephen: "Then why is you cryin'?"

Broomhilda: "You scaring me."

Stephen: "Why is I'm scarin' you?"

Broomhilda: "Because you're scary."

As a slave subject to the whims of her sadistic master Stephen in the ante-bellum American South, Tarantino's latest female lead Broomhilda von Shaft (Kerry Washington) suffers more than most in Django Unchained. During the course of the film, she is raped, whipped and humiliated as her husband Django (Jamie Foxx) seeks rescue and revenge. "I wasn’t sure I was the right woman to do it," Washington said. "I knew that emotionally and psychologically it would cost me a great deal. And it was ten times harder than I thought it would be."

Mia Wallace

Women of Tarantino