{"id":1617404,"date":"2022-08-20T09:16:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T13:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1617404"},"modified":"2022-08-20T09:17:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T13:17:30","slug":"jamie-foxx-says-sensitive-nature-surrounding-comedy-preventing-release-of-his-new-film-starring-robert-downey-jr-as-a-mexican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jamie-foxx-says-sensitive-nature-surrounding-comedy-preventing-release-of-his-new-film-starring-robert-downey-jr-as-a-mexican\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Foxx Says &#8220;Sensitive&#8221; Nature Surrounding Comedy Preventing Release Of His New Film Starring Robert Downey Jr. As A Mexican"},"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\">40<\/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-sensitive-nature-surrounding-comedy-preventing-release-of-his-new-film-starring-robert-downey-jr-as-a-mexican%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=1617404&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 class=\"subheading\">Jamie Foxx said the \u201csensitive\u201d nature around comedy is preventing the release of his directorial feature debut \u2014 <em>All-Star Weekend<\/em>, a basketball comedy that stars Robert Downey, Jr., as a Mexican man.<\/p>\n<p>Foxx spoke about his movie in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/interviews\/day-shift-interviews-with-jamie-foxx-dave-franco-and-director-jj-perry\">interview<\/a> with Cinemablend.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been tough with the lay of the land when it comes to comedy,\u201d he said when asked when <em>All-Star Weekend<\/em> will be \u00a0released.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to break open the sensitive corners where people go back to laughing again\u2026 We hope to keep them laughing and run them right into <em>All-Star Weekend<\/em> because we were definitely going for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jamie Foxx blames cancel culture for shelving of All-Star Weekend <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pyx3PzSO0C\">https:\/\/t.co\/Pyx3PzSO0C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MSN Arabia \u2013 English (@MSNArabia_EN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSNArabia_EN\/status\/1560105530324004865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>All-Star Weekend\u00a0<\/em>stars Foxx and Jeremy Piven as buddies who win tickets to the annual NBA event. On their road trip to Los Angeles, they encounter \u00a0all sorts of mishaps, including a run-in with Downey, Jr.\u2019s Mexican character. Foxx reportedly plays multiple roles, including a white police officer.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21865006\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-659010282.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey and Jr. attend LOS ANGELES PREMIERE OF \u201cTHE SOLOIST\u201d at PARAMOUNT THEATRE on April 20, 2009 in HOLLYWOOD, CA. (DAVID CROTTY\/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The casting of white actors as characters of other ethnicities has become taboo among the woke left and their allies in the entertainment media.<\/p>\n<p>Last year,\u00a0the casting of Javier Bardem as Desi Arnaz in the movie\u00a0<em>Being the Ricardos<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/11\/11\/aaron-sorkin-rejects-woke-casting-demands-spaniards-can-play-cubans-gay-and-straight-arent-actable\/\">was \u00a0criticized<\/a> for its lack of \u201cLatinx\u201d authenticity, with activists complaining on social media that a Cuban actor should play the role of Arnaz. (Bardem is from Spain.)<\/p>\n<p>The backlash was part of a larger trend among left-wing activists to pressure Hollywood to embrace so-called woke casting, which would prevent white actors from playing Latino roles and heterosexual actors from playing gay roles.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Hanks recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/06\/14\/tom-hanks-says-straight-actor-couldnt-play-his-philadelphia-role-today-no-and-rightly-so\/\">said<\/a>\u00a0a heterosexual actor couldn\u2019t play his Oscar-winning <em>Philadelphia<\/em> role if the movie had been made today, claiming modern audiences wouldn\u2019t accept the \u201cinauthenticity of a straight guy playing a gay guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, and rightly so,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Actor Eddie Redmayne recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/11\/22\/eddie-redmayne-playing-transgender-in-the-danish-girl-was-a-mistake\/\">disowned<\/a> his Oscar-nominated performance in <em>The Danish Girl<\/em>, in which he played a male-to-female transgender person.<\/p>\n<p>No distributor has been announced for\u00a0<em>All-Star Weekend<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow David Ng on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeyItsDavidNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@HeyItsDavidNg<\/a>. Have a tip? Contact me at\u00a0<a class=\"c-link x5l\" href=\"mailto:dng@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">dng@breitbart.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Foxx said the \u201csensitive\u201d nature around comedy is preventing the release of his directorial feature debut \u2014 All-Star Weekend, a basketball comedy that stars Robert Downey, Jr., as a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1617406,"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-1617404","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\/1617404","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=1617404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1617406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}