“Oliver Stone... when he met me he said, ‘You stink, you’re terrible. You can’t act at all,” says Jamie. “And I was like, ‘What?’ It was because I came from TV. And everything was loud in TV... And as I walked out of [Stone’s] office from my first audition, he wrote — and made me hear what he was saying— ‘Jamie Foxx: Slave to television.’ He said, ‘I want to give you the lead part but we’ve got to work on you, because you stink.’”
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This was back in 1999 and it’s still relevant. He needs more work. And for how long he’s been in the biz, Michael B. Jordan is close to being even keeled with Jamie in terms of acting chops. That, quite frankly, is pathetic.
I recognize that the bar is low for some of y’all but it’s not like I’m pulling it out of my ass.