Name: Jamie Foxx on Playing Mike Tyson
Uploaded: 2017-06-03T14:18:41.000Z
Duration: 4 min 35 s
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- You're doing a movie. You're playing Mike Tyson.

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- Is that right? - I'm playing Mike Tyson.

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And--and what's interesting about Mike Ty--

You know, we're all doing stand-up comedy at that time,

and I was burning it, ooh, I was burning L.A. down.

I was, like, the hottest comic coming through,

I get to my Mike Tyson joke, I'm about to kill it.

And this is back in the time when Mike is knocking people out

And so, I'm--no one's laughing, and then a dude,

who I still know to this day, yelled out from the back,

And everybody--and then some black girls in the front

talking about, "What you gonna do, Jamie?

You gonna tell your little joke now, Jamie?"

I'm, like, "Don't get him upset," you know?

So then the dude said, "Mike said, 'Do the joke'

And it better be funny." I'm, like, "Oh, snap."

So I do the jo--I do the joke. The joke was funny.

All of a sudden, Mike Tyson runs up to me.

"I want to hang out with you. You're funny.

And I started hanging out with Mike Tyson

so I didn't know that I was preparing at that time

by watching him, and I watched him all the way up--

when he went through all of the bad things.

And then I watched him when he got out of jail

I was actually living in Vegas 'cause I had ran out of money.

And, uh, when he--when he fought in Vegas,

it was 350,000 people in the city with no tickets

When I went--and women came to stay at my house

he had this pull, like, it was corporate women.

I said, "What is it about Mike Tyson that you like so much?"

And she's getting ready, she's, like, "Jamie,

and he could beat up everybody in the world."

it was at his house, and everybody was there.

Stevie Wonder was there playing the piano,

he didn't like, "Get away from me, 'Thong Song.'"

I was, like, "Hey, man. you better stand over here,

And, uh, I watched the girl ask him to take a picture.

"Get away from me! You don't want me to take a picture.

And it really got serious. And everybody was, like, "Whoa."

"Get away from me! You want to put me in jail!"

And the security guards were, like, "Yo, Mike.

And even Stevie Wonder was, like, "What--what is--"

You don't want to catch a right or something."

"What's going on?" "Don't worry about it, Stevie.

He just heard something. He's, you know, his ears--

So--so anyway, his-- his play sister comes

from out of the kitchen and calms him down.

Leading all the way up to now, today when we--

and Terry Winter, who wrote "Boardwalk Empire,"

Martin Scorsese, who hasn't directed a movie

about boxing since "Raging Bull," will direct it.

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