Jamie Foxx was a part of a press convention at this time whereas selling his Apple TV+ documentary manufacturing, Quantity One on the Name Sheet, and MovieWeb had an opportunity to ask Foxx in regards to the challenges of shifting behind the digicam to direct his first feature-length fiction movie, All-Star Weekend. It is apparently a wild comedy stuffed with vignettes, like absolutely the basic Robert Townsend comedy Hollywood Shuffle. And apparently, Robert Downey Jr. is ditching the Blackface of Tropic Thunder for a unique pores and skin complexion. As a matter of reality, so is Jamie Foxx.
Foxx mentioned calling in a wide range of folks to participate in what looks as if an outrageous comedy — not simply Robert Downey Jr., however Benicio Del Toro, Gerard Butler, Snoop Dogg, Jeremy Piven, Eva Longoria, DJ Khaled, The Recreation, and lots of others. In a hilarious Downey Jr. accent, Foxx imitated the actor accepting the position, after which detailed Downey Jr.’s fast trepidation. “At two o’clock within the morning he textual content me, and he is like, ‘Yo, bro, I am nervous about taking part in a Hispanic man.’ And I am like, ‘You performed a Black man in Tropic Thunder!‘” Foxx will play a number of characters himself, together with “a quadraplegic gangster” and a “white cop” who apparently says such racist issues that they’d hassle casting anyone else to say them.
Jamie Foxx additionally famous that the movie has been within the can for some time, with everybody ready for a political and cultural local weather after they felt snug to launch it. Foxx says that The Roast of Tom Brady on Netflix, with its wild humor, has satisfied him that now could be the time.
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Quantity One on the Name Sheet
Within the meantime, there’s Quantity One on the Name Sheet, a two-part documentary occasion for Apple TV+, with one half specializing in Black males and the opposite Black girls. The synopsis reads as follows:
“A few of Hollywood’s largest stars reveal their journeys to game-changing main roles. In candid interviews, they shine a light-weight on the highs and lows of their craft, breakthrough moments, blueprints for fulfillment, and the subsequent era’s enormous potential.”
It is an in-depth take a look at a few of Hollywood’s largest stars as they reveal their journeys to game-changing main roles. The movies are produced for Apple by Jamie Foxx, Kevin Hart, Datari Turner and Dan Cogan. Jamie Foxx produces by means of his Foxxhole Productions with Datari Turner, Kevin Hart produces by means of HartBeat and Dan Cogan produces by means of Story Syndicate.
Quantity One on the Name Sheet premieres on March 28, 2025, on Apple TV+. Watch this area for mroe details about All-Star Weekend.