KW: How did you prepare for the role after that?

JF: It was a matter of putting him together. Losing the weight… getting the hair right… getting the makeup right… and going to that place that I have feared going to for a long time, that is, losing your mind.

KW: What made you afraid of that?

JF: As a child I always feared losing my mind. There was a guy in my neighborhood who always walked up and down the street talking to himself. I won’t say his name, but I would always go, “Ooh, that’s scary.” And then, when I was 18, I had a horrible experience when somebody slipped something into my drink. It was a college prank that really went bad, and I hallucinated for 11 months. The doctors said that sometimes people go and they never come back. I was lucky enough to get back, but the way I recovered was by playing music all the time, because I was in a music school. Isn’t it interesting that Nathaniel Anthony Ayers had a similar situation?

KW: Very.

JF: So, at one point while preparing for this movie I woke my manager at like three in the morning, saying, “I got it, I’m him, I know exactly what’s going on. Nathaniel says this, that and the other, because he feels this way and that way. I used to do the same thing when I was in college. I played music, and the reason we play music is so we can soothe ourselves. I’m him!”

KW: How did your manger respond?

JF: He goes, “Foxx, I’m on way over to your house, because this is a little strange.” And when he gets there, I’m telling him all these different things which to him sounded like I was losing my mind. But to me, it made perfect sense, and that’s who Nathaniel Anthony Ayers is. Everything that he’s doing makes perfect sense to him. That’s why when Steve Lopez says, “You need help,” Nathaniel responds, “No, you don’t get it. This is what it is. This is what makes me feel comfortable. This is not your mind. This is my mind.” So, there were a lot of different parallels going on.

http://newsblaze.com/story/20090420145647kamw.nb/topstory.html

You don’t actually deserve a proper answer, but I’m going to give it to you because of your complete ignorance of schizo-related disorders. I don’t want you seriously walking away from this blog thinking that I’m not capable of having an actual conversation with you, even though you’re being incredibly rude, and insinuating that my opinion isn’t valid because of my mental illness, as well as insulting others who have commented to you.

To clarify, I wrote this post months ago, after reading some articles (mentioned in the post) and happening to see some TV interviews Foxx gave around the same time. They all irritated me, although all I posted here was the text, as I had no real interest in searching youtube forever for the TV interviews.

I found out a bit after I wrote this post about the incident he had with drugs when he was younger, which made some of what he said make more sense, but still didn’t make some of his comments any less irritating. I was originally going to make another post to mention that part, but since I really didn’t care that much, and the subject in general pretty much died after the film came out, I didn’t. I had no idea anyone was going to care so damn much about THIS post.

In closing, my main post was probably somewhat inaccurate in parts, as the media does like to sensationalize these things and write biased articles, but that’s hardly MY fault for believing what I read around numerous places, as well as seeing him basically say the same thing in interviews HIMSELF that I saw with my own eyes. So there is still truth behind my main post, even if maybe it wasn’t as dramatic as it first seemed.

VTRachel you can fuck right off I wasn’t even talking to you in the first place. Just someone answer my question and justify this slogging of Foxx or I’ll just go about my day thinking your all Schizophrenics who are making shit out to be more than it ever was.

Oh did I get that wrong? Kayleigh called me ignorant not arrogant? No shit, sherlock. I was asking her if that was a good exmaple of arrogance aswell. Duh?

Oh, let’s repeat that last part: “thinking with significant social or occupational dysfunction”.

But it’s not ok for me to think that you are making Foxx’s words out to be more than they really are?

How’s that for some arrogance Kayleigh?