“When you're in Hollywood, God slips out sometimes,” Oscar winner Jamie Foxx admitted Sunday.
The 57-year-old, who suffered a brain hemorrhage in 2023 that left him in a coma for several weeks, said his near-death experience brought him closer to God.
“When that happened, I said, 'If I can get through this, and God was speaking to me in a way. When you're in Hollywood, God slips out sometimes. '' he said. said Extra. “But when I told him, he said, 'I want you to sit here for a second, but when you get back outside, I'm not going to tell you to be an angel, but there's something different about you. ”
He added that he “no longer has bad days” and doesn't take life for granted. “I take a picture with my phone and press the filter to make it brighter. That's how my life is now.”
“When you dream of what you want to be, you only dream of good things, like a career or a house, but you never dream of tragedy,” he added. “When a tragedy really happens, you need a strong family and friends. So the two women who were with me tonight, Corinne Marie Fox and my daughter, and Anneliese Estelle Fox, The “setting held me down in a way that's hard to interpret in words.'' “
He likened the care his daughters showed him to Michael Corleone helping his father recover after he was shot in the classic film. godfather. “You have to show up and really take over everything, and she did that, and that's why I'm here,” he said.
In the words of Samuel Johnson, nothing focuses the mind like a near-death experience.
Not only does Hollywood need a God to save their souls, but one of the main reasons art is lacking these days is an acknowledgment of God as part of the human condition, an understanding of the soul. It is refusing to acknowledge its importance. In the late '60s, as the counterculture moved away from God, the void was increasingly filled with nonsense: cults, self-love, gurus, sex, the normalization of narcissism, and above all, politics. Art should enrich the human spirit and bring us closer to God. I look for God in everything I see.
For example, what I'm currently watching is offerA 2022 limited series depicting the making of. godfather. It's a good show, addictive, and interesting, but it's not really about overcoming obstacles to make a movie. There is something hollow, something missing. It's all plot, plot, plot, which is okay to a certain extent. no soprano singerit was all about the soul.
Perhaps Fox could incorporate this into his work. There's certainly an audience that likes that.
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