RZA Joins The Cast Of Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained"

The Wu-Tang Clan swordsman expands his acting resume with a role in Tarantino's Western.

RZA is once again expanding his acting resume with the announcement that he's joining the cast of Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained.

The spaghetti Western stars Jamie Foxx as a freed slave who joins forces with a German bounty hunter to liberate his wife. According to Variety, RZA will play Thaddeus, "a violent slave working on a Mississippi plantation."

RZA, who scored Tarantino's Kill Bill 1 and Kill Bill 2, also teamed with the director to have him present his directorial debut The Man With the Iron Fists. The flick, co-written with Eli Roth, stars RZA, Russell Crowe, Pam Grier and Lucy Liu. He will next be seen in G.I. Joe 2, A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas and the next season of Showtime's Californication.

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