![]() You’re like, ‘aw man, maybe we could have got that,” but all in all it was cool. I mean you’re always – I mean this was the indie process. I just think there were some things that we never got a chance to shoot. With fight scenes or any of the other scenes for that matter, were there any sequences that ended up on the cutting room floor that you wish would have stayed in? As such, I think those water breaks were warranted. Olympic Training Center when he’s not doing pictures like this. He was the world’s number two-ranked Tae Kwon Do competitor, plus he is a regular at the U.S. It was Tim Connolly as per the press pages. I remember my guy – I can’t remember his name now but the guy that I was fighting, you know he had to do a lot of things so we had to take a couple of water breaks. Jamie Foxx: The kitchen scene was exhausting. That involved not just hand to hand, but pots, pans, knives and some serious martial arts action. I suppose it’s good that there weren’t any mishaps with the kitchen scene. Talk about knowing the right people in the right place at the right time. So I hit him up and I said, yo’ money, you gotta put the plaster on. ![]() Jamie Foxx: Because my best friend who lives in Atlanta where we were shooting, he’s a dentist. Michelle Monaghan: I was thinking to myself, ‘wow, that’s kind of crazy.’ We had to complete the scene or whatever it was that we were doing and I’m trying to steal a glance at his mug and they were like perfect! The next day I was feeling really bad and sheepish. I was like, ‘Oh my God!!!’ and he was looking at me and he’s like, “keep going, keep going.” I was like oh my gosh!?! He was a total pro. Michelle Monaghan: I looked at my knuckle and I had split my knuckle and I looked at his tooth. And you can taste that little chalk you know – like mmmm. I don’t know who here is into porcelain, but like, I live that porcelain life. She actually chipped your tooth for real in the heat of battle? Cause you know all of this (indicates his teeth) is for show. They yelled action and she chipped my tooth. So we choreographed it and I really didn’t think that I was going to nail the moves until they called action and something just always miraculously happens you know? We did it and then at some point I got a little ahead of myself and maybe the adrenaline was going a little bit too much I don’t know what it was but I was on top of Jamie and I just connected. We really – Jamie knows I trained for a few months but we didn’t actually choreograph the scene until that set was ready and the set was just completed two days before it seems like – right before. Michelle Monaghan: He is such a gentleman. Jamie Foxx: She socked me right in the face. Jamie Foxx: Oh okay! I thought you were talking about what was going on right now. That’s interesting too, but I was talking about the one in “Sleepless” between you and Michelle. Jamie Foxx: Between Soulja Boy and Chris Brown? Jamie, how about your take on the battle royale? It looked pretty knock down drag out intense. Because I did it all with the exception of falling through the glass. Mixed martial arts with Jeff Imada, our stunt coordinator has done all the “Bourne” movies. I trained for at least two months three times a week three hours a day. In advance of that, AHH was able to sit down with Jamie Foxx and his costar Michelle Monaghan to discuss epic fight scenes, the beef between Soulja Boy and Chris Brown, as well as Foxx not getting the call for this year’s presidential inauguration.ĪllHipHop: You both have a pretty epic mano a mano fight scene in this movie. Centered around the classic movie trope of good cops gone bad against hypnotically urban backdrops, Atlanta serves as Las Vegas in this actioner set to open in theaters nationwide on January 13 th, 2017. Harris, would seem to be an 80’s style throwback to an older but not gentler look at a time honored Hollywood genre. As cop movies go, “Sleepless,” starring Jamie Foxx, Michelle Monaghan, Gabrielle Union and Tip T.I.
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