andre 3000 is jimi hendrix
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From the Daily News NYC:
Andre 3000's Kast as Jimi - twice
Hip-hop star Andre 3000 is ready to give his full measure to the role of Jimi Hendrix.
The Grammy-winning OutKast frontman (above) is due to play the rock legend in a movie directed by Albert and Allen Hughes.
Andre has no pretensions about being able to mimic Hendrix's lightning fretwork (inset). "I won't do my own guitar playing," he tells us. "It will probably be someone who knows Jimi's style inside and out."
But he stands ready to throw himself into the scene in which Hendrix meets the Plaster Casters, those two Chicago groupies who made true-to-life sculptures of rock stars' private parts. Hendrix is still preeminent among them. Cynthia Plaster Caster (who's still practicing her art) recalled later that, while some rockers had trouble sustaining the, um, desired pose for the time the plaster mold took to set, Hendrix was unflagging.
"I think that has to be part of the movie," says Andre with a twinkle. "Has to be." Aside from the plaster-casting, the 28-year-old rapper says his challenge is to show the seldom-seen side of Hendrix, who died in 1970 at 27. "Jimi was wild onstage," the soft-spoken singer says. "Offstage, he was really calm."
Andre, who appeared in "Hollywood Homicide," has also been working on "Be Cool," based on Elmore Leonard's sequel to 1995's mob comedy "Get Shorty," co-starring John Travolta, Danny DeVito and James Gandolfini.
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Andre 3000's Kast as Jimi - twice
Hip-hop star Andre 3000 is ready to give his full measure to the role of Jimi Hendrix.
The Grammy-winning OutKast frontman (above) is due to play the rock legend in a movie directed by Albert and Allen Hughes.
Andre has no pretensions about being able to mimic Hendrix's lightning fretwork (inset). "I won't do my own guitar playing," he tells us. "It will probably be someone who knows Jimi's style inside and out."
But he stands ready to throw himself into the scene in which Hendrix meets the Plaster Casters, those two Chicago groupies who made true-to-life sculptures of rock stars' private parts. Hendrix is still preeminent among them. Cynthia Plaster Caster (who's still practicing her art) recalled later that, while some rockers had trouble sustaining the, um, desired pose for the time the plaster mold took to set, Hendrix was unflagging.
"I think that has to be part of the movie," says Andre with a twinkle. "Has to be." Aside from the plaster-casting, the 28-year-old rapper says his challenge is to show the seldom-seen side of Hendrix, who died in 1970 at 27. "Jimi was wild onstage," the soft-spoken singer says. "Offstage, he was really calm."
Andre, who appeared in "Hollywood Homicide," has also been working on "Be Cool," based on Elmore Leonard's sequel to 1995's mob comedy "Get Shorty," co-starring John Travolta, Danny DeVito and James Gandolfini.
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this should be hott...hendrix changed the path of guitar skillz forever.....
Tim D
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Yea u ever here that song Morrison and Hendrix did called Fuck her in the Ass, Morrison was so stoned off of something, it was live, i think he made up the words write on the spot, its hilarious.
Anyway, Yea i think Andre is gonna do a great job acting as Jimi, im really looking forward to that
Anyway, Yea i think Andre is gonna do a great job acting as Jimi, im really looking forward to that
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am lookin forward to this! however the guitar parts will look kinda weird, cuz they will have to switch peoples up.
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I wont go and watch it.. movies like this tend to suck..
Kevin A
Differentiated Rebel
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afriquedeluxe said:
Not really afrique, did you really think that was Nick Cannon playing the Snare in drumline. If you watch closely as to how it's edited you'll find it wasn't him. When I first saw it, I loved the movie and didn't give it a second thought as to if it was him playing or not. It can be done and done well.