March 19, 2025 10:56 am

Jamie Foxx Got Robert Downey Jr. to Play a Hispanic Man in His Film 'All-Star Weekend'
Jamie Foxx Got Robert Downey Jr. to Play a Hispanic Man in His Film 'All-Star Weekend'

Jamie Foxx Got Robert Downey Jr. to Play a Hispanic Man in His Film ‘All-Star Weekend’

Jamie Foxx was part of a press conference today while promoting his Apple TV+ documentary production, Number One on the Call Sheet, and MovieWeb had a chance to ask Foxx about the challenges of moving behind the camera to direct his first feature-length fiction film, All-Star Weekend. It’s apparently a wild comedy full of vignettes, like the absolute classic Robert Townsend comedy, Hollywood Shuffle. And apparently, Robert Downey Jr. is ditching the Blackface of Tropic Thunder for a different skin complexion. As a matter of fact, so is Jamie Foxx.

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​Jamie Foxx also stars in ‘All-Star Weekend’ as a white cop who is so racist that they had trouble casting anyone else to say his lines. Read More