As Jamie Foxx continues to get well from a scary well being disaster, the director and stars of his subsequent film, Netflix’s sci-fi comedy They Cloned Tyrone, are singing the praises of the beloved Oscar-winning actor and Grammy-winning musician.

“He’s such a lightweight, and a lot enjoyable,” Teyonah Parris instructed Yahoo this week throughout an interview the place she was joined by costar John Boyega and director and co-writer Juel Taylor.

In April, the 55-year-old star of Ray and Django Unchained was hospitalized for an unspecified critical medical complication whereas he was filming the Netflix comedy Again in Motion with Cameron Diaz. With rumors about his situation swirling across the web, the actor’s daughter Corinne Foxx acknowledged in Could that her father had been “out of the hospital for weeks, recuperating.” He was transferred to a rehabilitation facility in Chicago that focuses on strokes and mind accidents. Earlier in June, his publicist, who has largely declined to touch upon the actor’s well being, issued a terse assertion taking pictures down claims Foxx suffered a stroke after getting a COVID vaccine.

“He’s getting the very best care and dealing onerous to get well proper now, however he’s nonetheless not himself,” an unnamed supply near the actor instructed Folks in a narrative revealed earlier Wednesday.

Following the discharge of final week’s action-comedy God Is a Bullet, Tyrone (premiering on Netflix July 21) will mark the second of three movies this summer season starring Foxx, with the R-rated talking-dog comedy Strays set for theatrical launch in August.

The Blaxploitation-inspired Tyrone options Foxx, Boyega and Parris as deliberately stereotypical archetypes — a pimp, drug seller and prostitute, respectively — as they uncover a nefarious authorities conspiracy focusing on their group.

“When you’ve gotten an enormous like Jamie come into an area, inevitably everybody seems to be to them,” says Parris (WandaVision, Candyman). “What’s the tone going to be? How are they going to hold themselves? From the bounce, he was simply very open and enjoyable and charming {and professional}. And in order that set the tone instantly for what sort of vibe we have been going to have. He got here in all the time taking part in music and was simply very open to concepts and discussions.”

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“It was an excellent expertise working with him,” provides Boyega (Star Wars, The Lady King). “I believe he was simply open, free and free, particularly when it got here to the precise scenes. He would improv. He would type of spice it up. [There’s] an enlargement of creativeness whenever you’re working with Jamie Foxx. He’s simply so quick-witted, it offers you a chance to be like, okay, ‘I must step on my recreation too, man.’ It is only a good vibe throughout.”

Taylor, who co-wrote Creed II and makes his function directorial debut with Tyrone, describes Foxx because the manufacturing’s uncle.

“He’s very empathic, like he can really feel just like the vibe on the set,” he says. “I all the time suppose again to a tough day. … He sensed the morale of the crew, the expertise, even the [extras]. We was having a tough day on set. And [then] you hear all this laughing within the parking zone and it’s like Jamie doing a standup present within the parking zone. True story. It was for all of the [extras], a few of these folks have been simply coming off the road. It was simply him being like emotionally intuitive, you recognize what I am saying? Understanding it’s tense on the set proper now. And we’d like some levity.

“I imply, he’s an Oscar winner. We already know what he can do on the dramatic facet, on the comedic facet. However what I didn’t know, not having not identified him till this course of, was how intuitive he was to the ebbs and flows of units and actually serving to [people] have an excellent set expertise past simply providing you with what you want on the display screen.”

They Cloned Tyrone premieres July 21 on Netflix.

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