Tennis player Novak Djokovic filmed a cameo for the airport shootout for free. However his scene, which involved him beating down terrorists with his racket, was cut.
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Larenz Tate, Clifton Powell, Terrence Howard, and Bokeem Woodbine appeared in Dead Presidents (1995).
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Writer, producer, and director Taylor Hackford secured the rights to Ray Charles' life story in 1987, but couldn't find a studio to finance the movie.
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Denzel Washington was first approached to play the title role, but passed on the project.
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Upon winning the Academy Award in 2005, Jamie Foxx became the first actor to win Best Actor for a performance in a music/musical movie since Sir Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady (1964), as well as the first actor to win the award for a music/musical biography movie based on the life of a musical legend since James Cagney for Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).
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Director of photography Pawel Edelman, a fan of Ray Charles, was the very first crew member to join the project by committing to it a year before start of shooting. Writer, producer, and director Taylor Hackford wanted to work with him in Proof of Life (2000), but Edelman was unavailable at that time.
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Writer, producer, and director Taylor Hackford said on his commentary that he made the decision to end this movie in the middle of Ray Charles' life because his later life consisted of no conflict, only success.
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Ray Charles died of liver failure on June 10, 2004, after filming had ended. He was able to sit through the first edit of this movie before his death.
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Jamie Foxx studied Ray Charles to better mimic him. After a few weeks, he stopped visiting Charles, saying that a 73-year-old Ray Charles couldn't help him portray the same man from ages 19 to 49.
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Clifton Powell and Regina King appeared in the Friday film franchise.
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Jamie Foxx attended classes at the Braille Institute in order to help him play the role of Ray Charles.
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Although Ray Charles successfully overcame his heroin addiction, he drank heavily and smoked marijuana for the rest of his life.
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Ray Charles was diagnosed with hepatitis C during filming. He confided to friends that if he had known he was going to live so long, he would have taken better care of himself.
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First African-American biopic nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
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This was the first African-American biopic nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Actor and Best Picture.
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Jamie Foxx played the piano in all scenes himself.
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At his request, the screenplay was translated into Braille for Ray Charles to read.
Ray - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Ray - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Ray - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Ray - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Ray - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Ray - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Ray - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Ray - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Ray - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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