20 actors that did bizarre stuff for a role

14) Jamie Foxx in Ray

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Jamie Foxx acts as the legendary musician Ray Charles in Ray, one of his most iconic roles. To play the blind musician, Foxx spent months meeting with Ray Charles himself to study his unique gestures, voice, and musical style. Foxx also learned how to play the piano left-handed, just like Charles, and wore prosthetic contact lenses to simulate blindness. He dedicated himself so fiercely to acting as Charles, a physical and emotional undergoing which Foxx says he could not fully comprehend without losing sight for days on end filming.

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