"Hollywood people tend to think that because one is successful in one aspect of entertainment they can bring them into this particular world and make a success out of them.
"They ask people like me to be in a film with those people that they are kind of headlining and your name ends up behind them.
"If you do that, it sanctions the fact that these people come into this world and you think they are worthy of you sharing your time on screen with them. I don't particularly think that."
Damn right!
I think Sam's pissed off because it wasn't till his 11th movie that he got to play "Criminal" and that was after his rivetting performances as "Bum" and "Gang Member No. 2".
Of course, his is about to appear in xXx: State of the Union with Ice Cube, but O'Shea's paid his dues having appeared in 20 movies already. Interestingly Cube's first movie, Boyz N The Hood, is arguably his best (well you can argue about it; Three Kings is actually the best, Boyz is second, though).
I know what he's getting at though. Does anyone really want to see that guy from that song about Polaroids play Jimi Hendrix[1], or would you rather him have a go at "Third Bloke on the Left Wearing a Bandana" in half a dozen movies first to see if he has the chops?
[1] André 3000 -- Andre Benjamin -- from Outkast, and the song is Hey Ya!. And, yes, he does want to do Jimi. Thankfully Jimi's family don't want anyone to make a movie out of the man's life.
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