Posted by | Cyrena Rose
“What I’ve learned—and there is no way I could have known this 15 years ago is that if you stay true to your craft, you will always work. As long as you stay poised on your talent, there will always be a place for you.” –Jamie Foxx
The 45-year-old award-winning actor flexes his bulging triceps on the cover of Men’s Fitness mag.
Jamie flexed his biceps as he sped past some fans while his ‘lady friend’ struggled to keep up during a bike ride in New York over the weekend
Foxx works out with his trainer, Jack Manson, the former New Orleans Hornets strength and conditioning coach who trained Foxx for Django. It’s a perfect match for the actor, who grew up playing every sport under the sun. “We’ll do about 45 minutes of weight training, and then we’ll go straight to basketball drills,” Manson says. “He’s a lot more responsive than typical pro athletes. Pro athletes—at least the basketball players—a lot of them rely on their skill.”
In the mag, Foxx is quick to praise the people in his life who have helped him become successful. He credits Will Smith with putting him on the map; Smith insisted that director Michael Mann cast Foxx as Bundini Brown, Muhammad Ali’s trainer, in Ali. Foxx practically dedicates his Oscar for Ray to Tom Cruise, who allowed him to release Collateral before Ray, instead of after, in order to start building buzz for Foxx’s subsequent award-winning portrayal of Ray Charles. And now he’s added Tarantino to that mantle, for launching his career into outer space with Django Unchained and helping him become a better director. “Thank God for people like Quentin Tarantino,” he says. “Not a lot of people reach back and do things like that, those guys are bigger than life.”
Enjoy the visuals of his photo shoot along with a few quotes from the article:
‘Get outside your box. The world has changed. It allows you to do more things.’
‘We are more connected with each other. Go out there and make it happen.’
You’ve got to step out and take a chance, and if you can make it work, it goes a long way.’
Photography by: Ben Watts
