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...Mann also made sure the supporting cast did its homework. Angelo Dundee, Ali's former trainer, was often on the set with Ron Silver, who plays him in the movie. Actor Jeffrey Wright closely observed Bingham, who was on hand to take pictures and help safeguard historical accuracy. Jamie Foxx studied tapes of Ali's late, drug-addled corner man Drew (Bundini) Brown. Jon Voight, who last summer hid himself under layers of prosthetics as Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Pearl Harbor, again endured hours each day in the makeup chair, this time disguising himself as Howard Cosell. The witty verbal...
Cocky, drug addled, desperate for redemption, Foxx's rendering of Brown is almost every bit as bold as director Michael Mann's film. Foxx, 34, studied videotapes of the champ's confidant, who died in 1987, and gathered anecdotes from those who knew him. An ace impersonator, Foxx also clowned around on the phone, as Bundini, with Ali himself. "You'd hear Muhammad laughing," recalls Foxx, "like he was talking to his old friend...
Most of the supporting cast in Ali is overshadowed by the swaggering performances of ringleader Will Smith and Jon Voight as Howard Cosell. But if you look closely, you will see that the movie's most tragic and comic moments come from Jamie Foxx as Ali's corner man, Drew (Bundini) Brown...
...Foxx is best known as a comedian--on TV's In Living Color and The Jamie Foxx Show, and he's appeared in half a dozen mostly forgettable big-screen comedies. But he started getting serious in 1999 with a bravura performance as an ego-driven quarterback in Oliver Stone's football drama, Any Given Sunday. "Chris Tucker beat me to the slot of big comedy," he says. "Chris Rock has his own slot. Will's got his slot. So do Martin Lawrence and all those guys. I got lucky in getting the chance to do something dramatic...
...with his solid reviews in Ali helping cement his reputation as a Serious Actor, Foxx is dreaming large. "If I were to ever win an Oscar," he says, "I'd have a gold chain with the Oscar on my neck everywhere I went...