Daniele Watts Cast In Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained

Danièle Watts Cast In Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained
by Wilson Morales

January 13, 2012

Danièle Watts, a passionately talented and devoted up and coming young actress takes on the role of Coco in Quentin Tarantino’s newest feature, DJANGO UNCHAINED about a slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. The film is in pre-production and is chock full of Hollywood A-listers that include Jamie Foxx, Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo di Caprio, Joseph Gordon Levitt and Kerry Washington.

Watts is also starring in BEFORE THE REVOLUTION as esteemed performance artist Eleanor Antin’s most famous persona “Eleanora Antinova,” a black American ballerina trying to make it in the great modernist Russian company of Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe. It’s there she encounters the histories and ambiguous realities of performance, racial stereotyping, and the magical promise of modernism and revolution. Antin directs the production along with Robert Castro

“Its an exciting time for me,” said Watts. “I had a few projects fall through in 2011 so it feels amazing to start 2012 working with Eleanor, a highly respected contemporary artist who has been challenging and examining depictions of women, and our assumptions about identity and race in a big way– and then to go straight from that, to shooting my first part in a big feature film with Quentin Tarantino is just an absolute dream, and I think confirms for me what’s possible for my future as a performing artist.”

Watts is a graduate of the University of Southern California, School of Theatre and has appeared most recently on Criminal Minds, Detroit 187, Cold Case, and The Strange Thing about the Johnsons, a shocking short film that went viral after appearing at Slamdance and The New York Film Festival last year. Her career has been steadily climbing since her Ovation Nominated portrayal of Topsy in the controversial Neighbors at the Matrix Theatre, and last year’s critically acclaimed portrayal of real life torch singer, Madi Comfort in David J’s (Bauhaus, Love & Rockets), retelling of the Black Dhalia murder, The Chanteuse and the Devil’s Muse.