Jamie Foxx: I Might Need Security (2002) on Netflix

Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Jamie Foxx: I Might Need Security (2002)

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• Foxx is the third male in history, after Barry Fitzgerald and Al Pacino, to receive two acting Oscar nominations in the same year for two different movies, Collateral and Ray.
• Foxx began at a comedy club's open mic night in 1989 after a girlfriend's dare, and found that female comedians were often called first to perform, so he picked a stage name ambiguous enough to disallow any biases. The surname was in deference to the 1970s comedian Redd Foxx.
• Foxx became the fourth artist to have both won an Academy Award for an acting role and achieved a No. 1 album in the United States, joining Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Barbra Streisand.
• On January 18, 2016, Foxx rescued a young man from a burning vehicle that had crashed outside his home. The driver had been going at a high rate of speed when the truck left the road, traveled into a drainage ditch and rolled over several times; he was arrested for driving under the influence.
• Foxx used his Netflix comedy special Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was..., released on December 10, 2024, to reveal that a brain bleed had led to a stroke and to his hospitalization in April 2023.
• Before comedy, Foxx attended Terrell High School, where he got top grades and played basketball and football as quarterback. His ambition was to play for the Dallas Cowboys, and he was the first player in the school's history to pass for more than 1,000 yards.