Sacha Baron Cohen in Django Unchained

MUMBAI: Sacha Baron Cohen, who is known for his film Borat, is the latest to join the star-studded cast of Quentin Tarantino‘s Django Unchained. Cohen is in final negotiations to play a gambler who buys Django‘s wife as a female companion.

Django Unchained follows the story of Django, a freed slave who under the tutelage of a German bounty hunter Ace Woody becomes a bounty hunter himself.

The cast includes Leonardo DiCaprio as the film‘s villain, Calvin Candie; Jamie Foxx as Django; Christoph Waltz as Ace Woody, the bounty hunter on Candie‘s tail; Kerry Washington as Django‘s wife, Broomhilda and Samuel L. Jackson as an outspoken slave.