Arts & Entertainment
Jamie Foxx The “Django Unchained” Interview
Academy Award-winning
actor, talented Grammy
Award-winning
musical
artist and comedian Jamie
Foxx is one of Hollywood’s
rare, elite multi-faceted per-
formers. He was last seen in
Horrible Bosses and also
recently lent his vocal tal-
ents to the popular animated
adventure RIO, as a canary
named ‘Nico.’
Meanwhile, Jamie recent-
ly executive produced a
sketch comedy series called
“In the Flow with Affion
Crockett” as well as “Thun-
der Soul,” a documentary
chronicling the achieve-
ments of Houston’s Kash-
mere High School Stage
Band.
In addition to his out-
standing work in film, Foxx
has enjoyed a thriving
career in music. In Decem-
ber 2010, he released his
fourth album, “Best Night
of My Life,” featuring
Drake, Justin Timberlake,
Rick Ross, T.I., and other
artists. In January 2010,
Foxx and T-Pain’s record
breaking #1 song “Blame
It” off of his previous
album, “Intuition,” won
“Best R&B performance by
a duo/group with vocals” at
In December 2006,
Foxx was seen in the
critically acclaimed
C ELEBRITY screen adaptation of
I NTERVIEW the Broadway musi-
cal, Dreamgirls. That
came on the heels of
by Kam
his Best Actor Acade-
Williams
my Award-winning
performance as the
legendary
Ray
Charles in Ray.
His big-screen break
the 52nd Annual Grammy
came
back
in 1999 when
Awards.
Oliver
Stone
cast him as star
In 2010, Foxx delivered a
hilarious cameo appearance quarterback Willie Beamen
in “Due Date,” and in Any Given Sunday. The
appeared in the hit romantic versatile thespian’s addi-
comedy “Valentine’s Day.” tional film credits include
The year before, he starred Ali, Miami Vice, Jarhead,
opposite Gerard Butler in Stealth, Bait, Booty Call,
Overture Films’ dramatic The Truth about Cats and
thriller Law Abiding Citi- Dogs, The Great White
Hype, and an Oscar-nomi-
zen.
Jamie demonstrated his nated supporting role in
affinity and respect for fic- Collateral.
Jamie first rose to fame as
tional portrayals with The
Soloist in which he played a comedian, from which he
Nathaniel Anthony Ayer, a initiated a potent career tra-
real-life musical prodigy jectory of ambitious proj-
who developed schizophre- ects. After spending time on
nia and dropped out of Jul- the comedy circuit, he
Keenan
Ivory
liard, becoming a homeless joined
Wayans,
Jim
Carrey,
musician who wonders the
streets of Los Angeles. Prior Damon Wayans and Tommy
to that, he played the leader Davidson in the landmark
of a counter-terrorist team Fox sketch comedy series,
“In Living Color,” creating
in The Kingdom.
some of the show’s fun-
niest and most memo-
rable moments. In 1996,
he launched his own
series, “The Jamie Foxx
Show,” on the WB Net-
work.
Here, he talks about
playing the title role of
slave-turned-bounty
hunter Django opposite
Christoph Waltz, Samuel
L. Jackson, Kerry Wash-
ington and Leonardo
DiCaprio in Quentin
Tarantino’s
Django
Unchained.
Kam Williams: Hi
Jamie, thanks so much
for the time. I’m honored
to have another opportu-
nity to interview you.
Jamie Foxx: [Playfully
clears his throat, before
answering in a very refined
tone] Why thank you.
[Chuckles. Then, speaks in
his normal voice] What’s
happening with it, Kam?
KW: I suppose I should
start by asking if you’d like
to comment on the recent
shootings in Connecticut?
JF: I got two daughters,
man, and all I want people
to do is to mourn the loss of
these precious kids and their
teachers and to pray that
their families heal.
KW: What interested you
in Django Unchained?
JF: Quentin Tarantino…
Leonardo
DiCaprio…
Samuel
L.
Jackson…
Christoph Waltz… Kerry
Washington… Oh, man! It
was like an all-star team.
What’s funny is that I didn’t
know anything about
Django, and I was hear-
ing all this buzz and then I
saw online how the biggest
actor in the world, Will
Smith, was going to work
with Quentin Tarantino.
And I was like, “Damn!
There’s another project I
didn’t know nothing about.”
But luckily, I somehow got
a chance to meet Quentin
and read the script which I
thought was brilliant. Next
thing you know, I was in a
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