Jamie Foxx says he’s forced to ‘act white’ for work

Jamie Foxx says he's forced to 'act white' for work

Denzel Washington

“I tell my daughter — she’s at NYU — I say:  ’You’re black, you’re a woman, and you’re dark-skinned at that. So you have to be a triple/quadruple threat.’ I said, ‘You gotta learn how to act. You gotta learn how to dance, sing, move onstage.’ That’s the only place, in my humble opinion, you really learn how to act. I said: ‘Look at Viola Davis.’ I said, ‘That’s who you want to be. Forget about them little pretty girls […]’ ”


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