So 50 Cent is appearing in the new DeNiro / Pacino film “Righteous Kill,” right? Apparently, 50 and DeNiro are such good buddies they go and blast glocks together.
“It was definitely cool just being around them, away from actually performing on camera,” 50 gushed to MTV. “De Niro, I’ve been to his house, met his wife. We’ve been to the firing range a couple times together.”
Fiddy even learned a thing or two about vanity, image awareness and not constantly preening in front of a mirror from Al Pacino.
“For me, I just wanted to make sure that I was 100 percent comfortable with the actual scene — I’d look at myself,” 50 said of his acting process. “[But] he won’t look at himself after he does the scenes, Al Pacino won’t. He’s like, ‘I know how I look.’ ”
“We met on one of those big-ass stages at Paramount. We had to do a scene where there’s a piece of cyclone wire fencing between us. I had to be really rabid and weird, and on the first take, I’m working myself up and a bit of spit comes out of my mouth and it weaves itself neatly through the fencing and lands right on Denzel’s lip. A glob of white fucking spit just sitting right there. And I’m going, Oh man, that’s fucked.” – Russell Crowe recalls the first time he met “American Gangster” c0-star Denzel Washington. [Entertainment Weekly]
“People are coming in, LeBron James was dancing. I had to look at Jermaine and say, ”Man, are you comfortable? Can you create like this?” But he was like, ”Nah, nah! I’m cool, I’m cool!” – Jay-Z kept the American Gangster studio experience civilized and mannered with pop, chips and moderate disco lighting. [EW]
DVD firm Lovefilm has named “Walk The Line” the Johnny Cash biopic, the best of its music film kind, in a very unscientific poll of “2000 Moviefans.” [IrelandOnline]
“D. Boon is probably the artist who inspired me the most to get into doing music for movies. We met with him when I did my first movie, “A Matter Of Degrees.’ ” – Wes Anderson right-hand music supervisor Randall Poster hearts the Minutemen, the Pretenders and Mark Lanegan. [A/V Club]
“It’s one of the greatest songs ever written. The chorus is my ringtone.” – Jason Schwartzman has Barry Manilow’s “Mandy” as his phone’s ringtone. He also loves Randy Newman, Chet Baker and Ram-era Paul McCartney. [A/V Club]
The soundtrack to Jerry Seinfeld’s “Bee Movie” comes out tomorrow (Oct 30) and it features Sheryl Crow desecrating George Harrison’s Beatles classic, “Here Comes The Sun.”
