We spoke w/ Jamie Foxx and Dave Franco about ‘Day Shift’ and the opening fight scene between Foxx and an elderly vampire.
With director J.J. Perry’s Day Shift now streaming on Netflix, I recently spoke to Jamie Foxx and Dave Franco about making their vampire action movie. Foxx plays a hard-working dad that works as a pool cleaner. But what his family doesn’t know is the pool cleaning job is a front for his real source of income -- hunting and killing vampires. Franco plays an employee at the vampire hunter union, which pays hunters for killing vampires and selling their fangs.
JAMIE FOXX: Listen. To me, that's what sold me on the film. When JJ showed me the previz of that, I said, "Yo money, what is that? How is this lady, this old lady doing it?" And he says, "The contortions and this." So when we started shooting that, that was the one thing that I couldn't wait to get into because I wanted to see how I would look in that. And, it turned out amazing.
FOXX: And I knew I had the right guy to do it because I literally told JJ, "I don't want to do the movie unless Dave Franco's in the movie. I've been tracking this dude for years, man." And I tell people all time, "I'm a comic snob. I'm the comic elite." People may make me laugh, but I want to know how he was making me laugh because he was doing it in such a clever way.
FOXX: But everyone, everyone was doing their own stunts. Snoop came in, he was training with us. And JJ shoots in a way where he's letting things breathe a little bit. And so, you can actually see it's us doing it as opposed to... There's some action movies that are cut up so much that you almost can't even tell what's going on.
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