{"id":1611788,"date":"2022-08-17T23:47:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T03:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1611788"},"modified":"2022-08-17T23:47:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T03:47:19","slug":"jamie-foxx-says-movie-featuring-him-in-whiteface-got-shelved-because-of-cancel-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jamie-foxx-says-movie-featuring-him-in-whiteface-got-shelved-because-of-cancel-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Foxx Says Movie Featuring Him In Whiteface Got Shelved Because Of Cancel Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjamie-foxx-says-movie-featuring-him-in-whiteface-got-shelved-because-of-cancel-culture%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1611788&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Actor <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/chappelle-assailant-had-knife-hidden-in-fake-gun-jamie-foxx-rushed-onto-stage-to-aid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jamie Foxx<\/a> complained recently that a movie he made several years ago may never get released, arguing that the film \u2014 which features him in whiteface and a white actor (Robert Downey Jr.) as a Mexican man \u2014 would likely rub woke critics the wrong way.<\/p>\n<p>Foxx sat down for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/interviews\/day-shift-interviews-with-jamie-foxx-dave-franco-and-director-jj-perry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with CinemaBlend promoting his Netflix film \u201cDay Shift\u201d \u2014 which IMDb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt13314558\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">describes<\/a> as follows: \u201cA hard-working, blue-collar dad who just wants to provide a good life for his quick-witted 10-year-old daughter. His mundane San Fernando Valley pool cleaning job is a front for his real source of income: hunting and killing vampires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, Foxx <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2022\/08\/17\/jamie-foxx-cancel-culture-movie-robert-downey-jr-playing-mexican-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gave an update<\/a> on \u201cAll-Star Weekend\u201d \u2014 the film he now believes might never make it into the hands of the public. The movie, a comedy that costars \u201cEntourage\u201d actor Jeremy Piven, is about two basketball fanatics who score tickets to a major NBA event. It was supposed to be released in 2019, but has been delayed.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that the film had cast Downey Jr. in the role of a Mexican man, Foxx suggested that woke culture might not accept his film. \u201cIt\u2019s been tough with the lay of the land when it comes to comedy,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to break open the sensitive corners where people go back to laughing again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Foxx plays several roles himself in the movie, including that of a racist white police officer \u2014 and he explained that was one of the reasons he believed Downey Jr. was perfect for the role. Referencing the \u201cIron Man\u201d actor\u2019s turn in blackface in the war comedy \u201cTropic Thunder,\u201d he explained that he had had to convince Downey Jr. to take the role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou played the black dude and you killed that s***,\u201d he reportedly said at the time. \u201cWe got to be able to do characters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Foxx, Downey Jr., and Piven, \u201cAll-Star Weekend\u201d has an all-star cast including Benicia del Toro, Gerard Butler, and Eva Longoria \u2014 and according to Foxx, the one thing he heard back after every early screening of the film was just how much people were laughing. \u201cHopefully we\u2019ll keep them laughing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Jamie Foxx complained recently that a movie he made several years ago may never get released, arguing that the film \u2014 which features him in whiteface and a white actor (Robert Downey Jr.) as a Mexican man \u2014 would likely rub woke critics the wrong way. Foxx sat down for an interview with CinemaBlend &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1611931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1611931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}