she plays-- >> she playsdjan's wife, broomhilda. >> rose: and there are some terrible lashing scenesmovie. >> there's a flashback where django remembers him-- the reason they got-- the reason they're in the predicament at the beginning of the movie is they tried to escape together and they got captured. so they whipped-- whip kerry, and whip broomhilda, and burn runaway "r's" into kerry's cheek and django's cheek and sell th separately once django gets free and becomes a bounty hunter now he needs to track her down and save her. in the movie he has a flashback where he remembers her whipping. and it's a-- you know, it's a very disturbing scene. you actually never see the whip actually touch her back, but it's just in kerry's face. un-- whenever you see-- i've never qiept bought it when i see movies where people get whipped because i just know that pain is so unimaginable that people would be losing it a lot more than they ever do in movies. it's almtike brando-esque, and i never bought that. kerry dug deep in herself to actually give a true human representation of what that must be l

in this, i wanted to take-- you know, i parallel django's your honor i with the siegfried broomhildaom wagner's "the ring," and even longer than that. it's when-- all the german legend. my bar lel that django is a siegfried-like figure and the it woman he's look for is truly named broomhilda. and i wanted to give this kind of story of a black man in that time period where he's considered three-fifths of a human to be able to go all wait to the pit of hell to extract his woman, his-- his princess in exile. who is basically locked in the tower of the evil kingdom by the evil ruler and get her out. and play it in that-- and give it the spaghetti western operatic view of the whole thing, the bigness of opera. the hugeness of a folkloric legend. and the of mix that, also, with negro folk lore from the time,. powerless animal able to triumph it over with cunning guile. >> rose: what connects your movies? is there some common demom they were the in all them? >> i don't know if i'm the best person to say that. it's more of an analysis thing for somebody else. i'm not ready quite actually to

. >> i know we felt the love between my character, "django" and broomhilda was the spine of the movies and craziness, our journey was to get pa back to each other. >> he is all about character. he wants you to focus on making the character real. because, you have to feel like there's nothing more important for "django" than to be with his wife and that's what inspires him to go into the depth of held to find her. so quinton was supportive of us kind of growing that love story. >> i my character's name is steven, he is in charge of running the candy household and the plantation and quinton told me to be black. u, i know her. >> in what special ways do you prepare for a role that has historical context. >> i did not have to learn a lot about slavery. i grew up in the south, i know a lot about it. i wanted to be honest to the times and find a way to have my character relate to the other characters in the film in a verbally and ideological way of not being as educated as i am now. >> cnni-report interviews are each saturday at this time, select questions by going to our website and you wa