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He plays Nurse John, a charming rock star of the ward, so to speak, who makes the girls’ hearts flutter. "From my first film, Monster’s Ball, with Puffy and Mos Def to Macy Gray in Shadowboxer, Eve in The Woodsman with Kevin Bacon, a musician has been in every film I’ve done" says director/producer Lee Daniels in a one-on-one interview with Rolling Stone during the Toronto International Film Festival. Full Article at Rolling Stone
From my first film, Monster’s Ball, with Puffy and Mos Def to Macy Gray in Shadowboxer, Eve in The Woodsman with Kevin Bacon, a musician has been in every film I’ve done
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It’s about the political system and the welfare system
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I love musicians. I’m going to do a musical next year [with Kravitz]. I’m not allowed to talk about it.
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I did not want to use Mariah’s music. It’s what I fought. It’s like the biggest, hardest thing ever for me
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When I saw the film, all I could think about was growing up in my neighborhood and knowing that girl Precious or that guy Precious and actually living in those situations myself.
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Because we’d just finished working together in a film. It’s called Tennessee, by a Canadian director Aaron Woodley, a little tiny movie and she starred in it for me. We became really good friends and I knew that she had the chops ... She does an incredible impersonation of Aretha Franklin. Not her singi...
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He’s going to be working with me on the next thing that I’m doing ... So I thought it was a way for him to see how it was that I worked. Like Mo’Nique [who stars as Precious' mother, Mary] worked with me in Shadowboxer, so she has a shorthand that we established so that we’d be ready to do this, we knew...
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