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When we found out last week that Martin Scorsese had officially signed on to make the long-rumored Frank Sinatra biopic, the first question you were probably asking yourself was, "Who is going to play Ol' Blue Eyes?" And as we're hearing today, one of the top candidates for the role has brown eyes and is quite unexpected.
According to a "well-placed industry insider," speaking to the Daily Express, none other than Jamie Foxx is in the running to portray the late Italian-American crooner. (Sinatra, 82, died in May 1998.) Says the undisclosed source, "Cool is color-blind. Jamie would seem to be born to the role." Adding, "Magnificent singing voice, totally convincing acting
ability, like Frank himself, born the wrong side of the tracks, rags to
riches, makes it big against the odds, has his brushes with authority.
The guy's a gift."
Others supposedly in the running are Harry Connick Jr., George Clooney, Justin Timberlake and Scorsese favorite, Leonardo DiCaprio. If realized, the Foxx casting would be a groundbreaking one, to say the least.
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i don't see this working out. the casting should be:
Leo DiCaprio as Frank
Don Cheadle as Sammy
Robert Downey Jr as Dean
But what part would Shia LeBeouf play?
Jamie Foxx is a weird choice. I get what they're doing, tying to transcend race and all that, but c'mon...just do a normal biopic.
Now, if they were to do a "bizarre" movie, like the recent Bob Dylan flick 'I'm Not There,' it would be more understandable.
i don't think its going to work. race is a part of who we are, like it or not. if frank sinatra is played by a black man, it changes who frank sinatra is and this is a biopic. even when cate blanchett played dylan, she played him as a man. would foxx become white for the role? that would be more accurate.
Don't hold your breath for Brad Pitt to play the lead in a film about a runaway slave in Alabama in the 1830s.