“Dating Her is Like Wearing Hot Lava.”: These Wild Facts About Celebrities Left Us Speechless

Jamie Foxx’s performance as Ray Charles in Ray was already a huge career challenge, but he took the transformation to an extreme place. To better understand Charles’s blindness, Foxx had his eyes glued shut during long shooting days. That meant he could not simply step out of the role between takes.

The experience was physically and mentally intense, but it helped him deliver the performance that won him an Oscar. It is one thing to imitate a famous musician; it is another to remove one of your own senses for hours at a time. Foxx did not just play Ray Charles; he trapped himself inside part of the experience.