Sacha Baron Cohen in Negotiations for Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained'

Cohen would play a small but showy character that's party to disappearance of the title character's wife.

1:40 PM PST 11/11/2011 by Borys Kit

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Sacha Baron Cohen has nabbed one of the last roles in Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino’s latest production.

The movie is set in the American South of the 1800's and follows a freed slave (Jamie Foxx) who partners with a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) in order to find his wife.

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The actor is in negotiations to portray a minor but showy role of a off-kilter gambler who buys the wife (Kerry Washington) much to his misfortune.

Cohen joins a high wattage cast that only includes Foxx and Waltz but also Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kurt Russell, Don Johnson, RZA, and Anthony LaPaglia among others.

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The movie is due to start shooting later this month.

Cohen will next be seen in Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, which opens November 23.