“I want to hear James Brown’s voice… That’s just my personal taste… I know Joaquin Phoenix in ‘Walk the Line,’ he did some of the singing… I’m a purist.”
This is the first time that I’ve heard Snipes is playing James Brown. And don’t get me wrong I love Wesley Snipes, but is that really a good decision? Snipes phones in 90% of his roles nowadays with what looks like little to no preparation, so unless in Spike Lee’s mind James Brown was also a secret spec op mercenary with ninja training or something I don’t think the topless scenes are gonna correlate.