(March 13, 2019 – Source: Getty Images North America)
*Jamie Foxx has recalled the time a notable Hollywood director called him “horrible” and yelled for him to “get the f**ck out” of an audition.
Foxx sat down with Shia LaBeouf, Robert DeNiro, Adam Sandler, Adam Driver, and Tom Hanks for The Hollywood Reporter’s annual actor roundtable interview where he spilled the tea about his moment with director Oliver Stone during an audition for “Any Given Sunday.”
“I remember Oliver Stone, when I first auditioned [for Any Given Sunday], he was like, ‘You’re horrible.’ And I was like, ‘What?’ He was like, ‘Just get the f**k out of here.’ As I’m walking out he said, ‘Jamie Foxx, slave to television,’” Jamie continued, “But I learned from that toughness.”
Foxx ended up getting the lead role in that movie but he never forgot the way he was treated.
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“If I gave myself any advice, I would have gone left instead of right, then I probably wouldn’t have ended up in this situation. I wanted to be married and work at Kodak — and all that sort of fell through. So, boom! I said, ‘I’m on my way and I’ll figure it out.’ You’ve got to live it and then look back and say, ‘OK.’ Anything could have set [me] in a different direction and I wouldn’t be sitting here, and I wouldn’t change sitting here for the world.”
Shia also spoke about his negative experience with the famed director when he was working on “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.”
“He would never look me in the eyes. He always looked just above my eye, to the eyelid,” LaBeouf remembered.
Meanwhile, Jamie is currently campaigning for an Oscar for starring as a man wrongfully imprisoned in “Just Mercy,” which hits theaters later this month.
When asked if he tapped into his personal life to draw from for his film, Foxx explained: “My father was an educator for 25 years in the hood. He dedicated his life to saving black kids in the hood and they ended up putting him in jail for $25 worth of illegal substance for seven years. That was a huge thing that I carried inside. I didn’t share it with a lot of people.”
He added,” The moment when the cuffs were being put on me, they had a guy who was part of the prison system. “Yo, he’s bigger, squeeze it tighter.” That’s his everyday life. There were a couple times when I was like, “Hey, man, they’re tight enough.” But I don’t want to get used to that. So many people are used to seeing their father, their brother, their mother in jail. And the next thing you know, we start rapping about it.”
THR Oscar Roundtables will roll out through December in print and online. Then watch them as new episodes of Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter, starting Jan. 5 on SundanceTV.
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