'I had to sort of piece things together through what people were saying.' Jamie Foxx (iamjamiefoxx) explains how he prepared to embody his real-life character in JustMercy
"The first thing that helped me was aesthetically, we are part of the same tribe in a sense," Jamie Foxx told the Actor Roundtable of embodying his real-life character in, Walter McMillian. "Our cheekbones, the diamond shaped head, that haircut that he had, I had that in the '80s as well. Aesthetically, we were ahead of the game."
"I didn't have a chance to see him actually alive," he said. McMillian died a decade after his release from death row imprisonment. "I had to sort of piece things together through what people were saying. And then talking to Bryan Stevenson." Stevenson, the real life attorney who worked with McMillian and wrote the book, is portrayed by Michael B. Jordan in the film. "He goes and meets this guy on death row and finds out all these horrible things.
"He told me how Walter was. He felt like, 'since I'm in this situation, I might as well do everything I can to help.'" Foxx sees his own role in helping as "talking about changing the perception, because the perception kills us. I don't want to go see somebody in jail, because I don't wanna get used to that. So many people are used to seeing their father, their brother, their mother in jail. The next thing you know, we start rapping about it. We should rap about being in jail because we don't have any other thing, this is all we see. It's a tough thing.".
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