Jamie Foxx says P. Diddy should have been the new Bond

[NFS4]

Although the white, English actor, Daniel Craig, is the latest to play the white, English spy, James Bond, Jamie Foxx thinks that Hollywood missed an opportunity by not casting...here it comes...wait for it...Sean Combs (a.k.a. Puff Daddy, P Diddy, Shiddy, etc.). He says:

Bond has got to come on up, man. They've got to get with the times. It needs oomph right now. Diddy would have made a good Bond. I tell you who would have made a great Bond about eight years ago: Denzel Washington. He was doing The Pelican Brief, Philadelphia. I'm sitting in some awards show (I snuck in) and I write, 'Do you ever think about playing James Bond?' on a napkin, walked over and handed it to him. I don't know if he ever read it."

Other than the nightmare it would be to change the script so James Bond can give "big ups" to Biggie everytime he kills someone, Jamie Foxx and I are in total agreement about this. Just recently, I was watching The Rosa Parks Story, and instead of Angela Bassett, I really thought they should have used Scarlett Johansson in a bikini. Or instead of Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain, they should have used Cowboy Curtis. Just think how much better The Lion King would have been if they would've used turtles dressed as lions. Honestly, Hollywood really needs to get its head out of its ass.

http://www.idontlikeyouinthatway.com/2006/08/jamie-foxx-is-confused.html

 

[Ika]

Was he on crack when he said that? Sounds like it.

 

[QED]

LOL... that's funny.

I think instead of recasting a white character as black, they just create a whole new spy persona who already is black and go from there.

Seeing Denzel Washington as some sort of super-secret CIA agent would be very cool though... not sure about ever wanting to see Sean Combs in anything, though.

 

[eits]

puff daddy needs to be kicked in the nuts about 20 or 30 thousand times and have a power drill puncture his skull through his forehead.

yeah, that's right... i called his dumb ass puff daddy... fvck that "call me p.diddy" faggotry.

 

[Genx87]

As bad as the new bond is going to be, P Diddy would have sunk that franchise big time.

Connery would probably die, then roll in his grave.

 

[Lazy8s]

Haha if this is true it would be great. I don't know though, Jamie Foxx doesn't seem that ignorant, or perhaps he was just joking. Either way James Bond is not a black guy, period, ever. If he is ever cast as anything other than a white englishman the series will die to me. It would be like casting a white guy instead of Will Smith in Bad Boys, you just can't do it. Or casting a white guy as Shaft. Imagine if Pootytang had been asian or Jackie Chan had been hispanic.

 

[eits]

Originally posted by: Genx87
Connery would probably die, then roll in his grave.

hahaha

 

[ZOOYUKA]

Jamie Foxx is rascist.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: QED
not sure about ever wanting to see Sean Combs in anything, though.

I mean, come on. Bond should have impeccable taste in fashion no matter where he is

 

[eits]

Originally posted by: Lazy8s
It would be like casting a white guy instead of Will Smith in Bad Boys, you just can't do it.

miami vice, anyone?

 

[CombatChuk]

Originally posted by: QED
LOL... that's funny.

I think instead of recasting a white character as black, they just create a whole new spy persona who already is black and go from there.

Seeing Denzel Washington as some sort of super-secret CIA agent would be very cool though... not sure about ever wanting to see Sean Combs in anything, though.

They already did. It's called Undercover Brother...

 

[newbiepcuser]

I think Hollywood learned their lesson with Will Smith as James West in Wild Wild West.

 

[MoPHo]

Originally posted by: QED
LOL... that's funny.

I think instead of recasting a white character as black, they just create a whole new spy persona who already is black and go from there.

Seeing Denzel Washington as some sort of super-secret CIA agent would be very cool though... not sure about ever wanting to see Sean Combs in anything, though.

XXX and Ice Cube?

 

[mundane]

Originally posted by: QED
LOL... that's funny.

I think instead of recasting a white character as black, they just create a whole new spy persona who already is black and go from there.

Seeing Denzel Washington as some sort of super-secret CIA agent would be very cool though... not sure about ever wanting to see Sean Combs in anything, though.

I think you're forgetting the wildly popular Undercover Brother. It has the makings of an epic franchise.

Edit: Beat me to it.

 

[So]

Yes, because P. Diddy could do a passable british accent, and would act like a BRITISH secret agent. Plus, I'm pretty sure that Flemming specified that Bond was actually English...now I don't know if that means ethnically english or just born in england, but he was alive to choose the actor and his original choice was roger moore, IIRC -- who took the role years later -- and is the only actual Englishman to play the part.

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: QED
LOL... that's funny.

I think instead of recasting a white character as black, they just create a whole new spy persona who already is black and go from there.

Seeing Denzel Washington as some sort of super-secret CIA agent would be very cool though... not sure about ever wanting to see Sean Combs in anything, though.

Text

 

[ZOOYUKA]

It went over so well when they gave the Honeymooners that treatment. They completely disgraced a classic.

 

[Miramonti]

If we can recast Jesus as white we can recast Bond as black.

 

[DougK62]

Jamie Foxx is a good actor, but he's terribly racist.

 

[squirrel dog]

" He be Shaft "

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Although it would have been cool to see Q give Bond some "bling,bling" diamond encrusted gadgets, and maybe a Gucci shoe phone And of course Bond was the original Playa Yo.

 

[mordantmonkey]

Originally posted by: jjsole
If we can recast Jesus as white we can recast Bond as black.

ahahahaha. good one.

though jesus wasn't black, but he sure as hell wasn't white either.

i actually think a british black bond would be a good change up. I'm sure there's got to be some decent black actors who can do an english accent. hell there's probably even actual decent black brit actors that could pull it off.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
Although it would have been cool to see Q give Bond some "bling,bling" diamond encrusted gadgets, and maybe a Gucci shoe phone And of course Bond was the original Playa Yo.

Oh god. <throws up in mouth a little>

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
Although it would have been cool to see Q give Bond some "bling,bling" diamond encrusted gadgets, and maybe a Gucci shoe phone And of course Bond was the original Playa Yo.

Q is gone. R is now.

 

[Electric Amish]

though jesus wasn't black,

...and you know this how?