Jamie Foxx ‘Missed’ By John Boyega & Cast Of His New Movie As He Continues ‘Recovery’ From Mystery Illness

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Actor Jamie Foxx, 55, was hospitalized for a mystery illness successful aboriginal Apr., and his They Cloned Tyrone co-star, John Boyega, 31, revealed however overmuch helium and the remainder of the formed “miss him.” While chatting with Extra at the American Black Film Festival successful Miami connected Jun. 14., the rising prima noted that “nobody has spoken” to the 55-year-old recently. “No, nobody’s spoken to Jamie. So we’ll spot him erstwhile we spot him and we privation him each the bully wellness and marque definite that helium conscionable recovers successful the close way,” John said. “He’s a immense inspiration and we miss him a lot. We miss you, man.”

John, who plays the relation of Fontaine alongside Jamie’s Slick, gave viewers a glimpse into what it was similar to enactment with him. “I deliberation Jamie Foxx has been doing it since the earliest days. I was truly enticed by him connected however overmuch he’s been capable to diversify his skillset,” the Star Wars actor said. “You know, a singer, a producer, an actor, a businessman, coming from my presumption increasing up, you look astatine that and go, ‘I would emotion to embody conscionable 2% of that.’”

More so, John attributed his co-stars to however “easy” it was to enactment connected the Netflix task acceptable to premiere connected Jul. 21. “It was precise nuanced. I mean you’re playing a clone, you’re playing aggregate antithetic types of characters truthful determination was a batch of studying going into it but I was supported truthful good by Teyonah Parris, Jamie, Juel [Taylor], our director, truthful it was truly a amusive time,” helium gushed. “They made hard enactment creaseless and easy.”

Jamie Foxx’s co-star, John Boyega, spoke astir him astatine the ‘They Cloned Tyrone’ premiere. (Shutterstock)

Later, Jamie and John’s co-star, Teyonah, 35, gushed implicit what it was similar to enactment with the Oscar winner. “Our archetypal clip unneurotic WAS connected set… truthful that was precise exhilarating,” she quipped. “Jamie is conscionable specified an bonzer human, not lone an bonzer talent, and it truly was a privilege and an grant to enactment alongside him.” The 35-year-old besides called Jamie a “dope” idiosyncratic to enactment with. “He’s truthful dope and he’s truthful generous arsenic an histrion truthful I loved moving with him,” she concluded.

As galore know, the father-of-two was been successful betterment for respective weeks now, arsenic his daughter, Corinne Foxx, 29, revealed that her dada was released from the infirmary “weeks” prior to her May 12 statement. Days aft a root told TMZ that Jamie was receiving physical therapy successful Chicago, the 29-year-old was spotted visiting her pops astatine a rehabilitation center successful the Windy City connected May 18, per The Daily Mail. Prior to that, connected May 3, Jamie took to Instagram to interruption his soundlessness connected the matter. “Appreciate each the love!!! Feeling blessed,” helium wrote implicit a black square. The arrogant dada took to Instagram much precocious connected Jun. 13, to beforehand the Netflix movie. “It’s astir to spell down. #TheyClonedTyrone coming July 21, lone connected @netflix,” helium captioned the authoritative trailer.

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