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 Jamie Foxx
Interview By: Andrea Tuccillo Since winning the Academy Award for his spot-on portrayal of musical legend Ray Charles in 2004’s Ray, Jamie Foxx has been taking Hollywood by storm. The former stand-up comedian has proved himself as an unexpected dramatic talent in films like Collateral and Jarhead and has also showcased his musical chops in Dreamgirls and through album recordings. Now he’s tackling the political thriller The Kingdom. As federal agent Ronald Fleury, Foxx must assemble a task force to investigate a deadly suicide bombing in Saudi Arabia. The role required some preparation and research, something that proved to be an eye-opening experience for Foxx. The Kingdom strives to hit the balance between grim reality and entertainment value, peppering serious moments with a lighter touch. It’s something Foxx thinks is true to the real-life situations on which the movie is based. “We got a chance to go to where the federal agents train for this and they show you bombs,” he says. “That was what was crazy, like seeing them blow stuff up in front of you. And to see how their approach was as opposed to mine because I was like, oh my God, what are they gonna do? And they were just—it was another day in the office for them. So we had to sort of match that. It’s not how we view it. We view it on this huge scale and they view like I got to get up, go to work, this may happen, this may not happen. And so that was the reason for putting some of the jokes in there, making it light, because that’s the way these guys are.” To some, the movie has a powerful political undertone. But Foxx views it on a much simpler and less controversial level. To him it was more about the characters and the circumstances they must face. “I don’t know if it was necessarily political as it was…When you watch Ashraf [Barhom] ’s character you lock on him and say wow, look at this dude who’s a cop in Saudi Arabia, how does he work within this?” he says. “And you sort of start following him and watching his plight and it wasn’t political, it was just about this guy going to work and trying to do his job.” With the movie’s touchy subject matter, is he worried about its box office success? “When you’re working with [producer] Michael Mann and [director] Peter Berg that’s not the first thing you think about,” says Foxx. “The first thing you think of is the work of it, the art of it. When you look at Al Pacino and you look at his body of work, most of them weren’t the commercial success but they were the one’s that you remember. So not to say that I don’t want to be commercially successful, but you know that you’re doing a piece that when you look back on it, you can be happy about it.” The actions sequences in The ... |
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