Jamie Foxx discussed his fears playing a schizophrenic in The Soloist on Extra.
He declares, “When I had to go meet the psychiatrist… I was like ‘Has anyone flipped out trying to play someone flipped out?’ And he was like, ‘You know, the mind is a very interesting thing.’ And I’m like, ‘Man, you’re giving me the creeps!’” © Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos
Foxx said, “I was like, ‘Has anyone flipped out trying to play someone flipped out?’”
Jamie Foxx tells host Mario Lopez that playing a schizophrenic homeless musician in his new film, The Soloist, was mentally exhausting.
He declares, “When I had to go meet the psychiatrist… I was like ‘Has anyone flipped out trying to play someone flipped out?’ And he was like, ‘You know, the mind is a very interesting thing.’ And I’m like, ‘Man, you’re giving me the creeps!’”
As for working with co-star Robert Downey Jr., Foxx comments, “[Downey is an] incredible man…When I saw him, I said, ‘You’re the biggest star on the set.’ It was just before Iron Man was about to come out. He was like a 10-year-old waiting on Christmas Eve for something good to happen...Do you ever see somebody that’s a whole lot better than you?...I had to every day come in and nail it down.”
When Lopez tells Foxx that he’s a fan of his new single, “Blame It,” Foxx presents Lopez with an offer he can’t refuse! Foxx says, “So, I’m going to ask you right now. You’ve gotta be in one of the videos with me….This is an urban song but I have a feeling it’s going to go pop…”
He continues, “…The way I’m making it go pop. I asked Ron Howard, Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker, Samuel L Jackson, Quincy Jones, Ashley Scott, Bill Bellamy…Just everybody [to star in video].”
Revealing how he managed to secure his video’s all-star cast, Foxx says, “I was at the Inauguration [and] everybody was on that “feel good thing” watching Barack....”
“Extra’s” interview with Jamie Foxx airs on Monday, April 6th.
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