Will Smith turned down the role of Django in Django Unchained.
Smith loved the basic story, but couldn't see eye to eye with director Quentin Tarantino about its creative direction. “I wanted to make that movie so badly, but I felt the only way was, it had to be a love story, not a vengeance story,” Smith said. "I just couldn’t connect to violence being the answer. Love had to be the answer,” Smith explained.
In Will Smith's case for example, if someone just described the concept for " Wild, wild west", it sounds pretty amazing. While you could easily interpret "The Matrix" as: "sounds a bit crazy and out there".
I’m sick of him almost being in every movie.