“Just so much talent in one person,” her costar Jamie Foxx raves.
Dominique Fishback makes an impression.
My favorite part of the whole movie is Dominique, says costarJoseph Gordon-Levitt.
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We wanted to cast someone with a real breakout potential.
Indeed, Foxx is effusive.
Who’s going to be that Regina King?
Who’s going to be that Regina Hall?
She is definitely that, and then some.
She also has a vivid memory of the chemistry read with Foxx and how quickly it went.
I had flown all the way from New York to L.A., she says.
I’m sitting there like, I don’t want to leave yet."
Brooklyn is nervous that I’m going to become a star and leave and never come back.
I’m trying to convince Brooklyn, I’m like, No, it’s not like that.
Jamie just loved it, and so that was an amazing, amazing opportunity.
That love of spoken word also manifested itself in her own one-woman off-Off Broadway show playing 22 separate characters.
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