Jamie Foxx Both Plays and Is a Crazy Person

Jamie Foxx’s role in the upcoming movie The Soloist was especially hard on him, because in order to nail the part, he had to become the very thing he feared most: a crazy, poor person.  While shooting the movie, which is about an actual homeless man who makes beautiful music, Foxx badgered psychiatrists with statements like “I know why [main character] Nathaniel does this, and I’m him!” and “Can you catch schizophrenia?”  (You have to imagine that he was shouting this into his Blackberry.)  Why?  He had a “childhood fear of going crazy.”

“When I was 18, somebody slipped me something in college and I lost my mind and they had to take me to the hospital,” Foxx said. “For 11 months it was tough.”

Foxx is undeniably a world-class actor, and world-class actors are the ones who get to play brilliant, troubled people, because those are the best roles.  Remember A Beautiful Mind?  Phenomenon?  Flubber?  Right.  But between his unhinged rant at a small teenage girl, his zany defense of Michael Vick’s dogfighting antics, the song “Blame It,” and the fact that he actually chose to name himself Jamie Foxx, it’s safe to assume that Foxx’s fears of losing his mind are unfounded: you can’t go insane if you’ve been a f*cking nutcase all along.

Source: CNN.