'09
Star Magazine is reporting the rumor that Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler are not getting along at all while filming Law Abiding Citizen. What’s the beef between the Oscar-winning actor and the Scottish heartthrob? It all comes down to the ladies, apparently. Jamie is very jealous of the female attention Gerard Butler gets. Um… I’m sure Jamie gets his fair share of the ladies. Or are the women of Philadelphia just obsessed with Gerard Butler and his naked romps through the city? Excuse me, let me savor that image for a little while…
Hollywood catfights aren’t just between the ladies! Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler have been going at it on the set of Law Abiding Citizen. An insider tells Star, “Jamie is jealous of the female attention Gerard gets. And Gerard is annoyed that Jamie’s always jetting off to Vegas to party.”
The Dueling duo even have pet names for each other: Gerard calls Jamie “The Fool”, and he’s known as “Ger-tard!”
“It’s like high school on this set!” says the source. Boys will be boys!
[From Star Magazine print edition]
Uh, not funny. “Ger-tard” sucks. And “The Fool” is unoriginal. I hope that part of the rumor is not true. That’s all I’ve got say about that.
In other Jamie Foxx news, I’m surprised that The Soloist isn’t getting better reviews. From most of the stuff I’ve read about the film, people like it, they think Foxx will get an Oscar nomination, but mostly they think it’s a good-not-great film. The Soloist was going to be a big Oscar contender last year, but the studio pushed the release date. The sometimes lukewarm reviews are making me think that something else might have been amiss in the film’s testing. I was also surprised to learn that Foxx didn’t even try to learn the cello – he merely studied how to fake-play. The Los Angeles Times has a piece about the guy who trained Foxx to make the correct movements to look like a concert cellist:
[Ben Hong] and the Oscar-winning actor began their four-month crash course on the cello in early September 2007. For 10 hours a week, they practiced the movements needed to make Foxx look like he’s actually playing the mostly Beethoven repertoire that includes passages from the Cello Sonata No. 4 and the second movement of the Triple Concerto.
Hong developed a simplified notation so Foxx could learn the left-hand fingerings. He also taught the actor the bowing techniques. (They applied soap to the bow in order to muffle the sound during practice.)
During production, Hong was literally everywhere. He served as technical advisor for all scenes involving music; he coached actor Tom Hollander, who plays the L.A. Philharmonic’s principal cellist; he recorded all of the playback tracks (whenever we see Foxx play the cello, the sound is performed by Hong); and he even plays himself in a few brief glimpses.
For the playback tracks, Hong had to play deliberately out of tune to suggest Nathaniel Ayers’ state of mind. He worked with the film’s composer, Dario Marianelli, in order to perfect the imperfect sound.
“Dario would come out of the control booth and say that ‘it’s too pretty or the intonation was too good, you have to make it worse,’ ” recalled Hong. “That was actually a lot of fun.”
The musician was hired for the film because he had already met Ayers through Steve Lopez, whose articles inspired the movie. Most of the filming took place at a warehouse in Culver City, as well as a few days at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
[From The LA Times ]
Meh. I’ll probably rent it, but I guess I won’t see The Soloist in the theatres. Robert Downey Jr. looks good in it, though. I love when Downey does straight drama – he’s a much better dramatic actor than people give him credit for.
Here are Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx being welcomed to Philadelphia during a press conference at City Hall on January 23rd. Images thanks to WENN.com .
Written by Kaiser
Posted in Feuds, Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Movies
- TV Shows that outstayed their welcome [Pajiba]
- Goopy and Cameron Diaz went to a Coldplay concert [Lainey Gossip]
- The bacon milkshake! [D-Listed]
- Ashanti looks... good? [Go Fug Yourself]
- 20 great songs under 2 minutes [Fark]
- Snooki and J-Woww on notice [IDLYITW]
- Jennifer Aniston through the years [Popsugar]
- Kirsten Dunst looks so pretty here [Evil Beet]
- Mila Kunis without makeup [Celebslam]
- The awful cover letter all of Wall St. is mocking [Gawker]
23 Responses to “Gerard Butler & Jamie Foxx are fighting, have horrible nicknames”
Leave a Reply
By commenting you agree to our comment policy
Use the "Report this comment as spam or abuse" link to ask the moderators to delete a comment if it's offensive. If your comment disappears, it may have been eaten by the spam filter. Please e-mail cbcomments at gmail.com to get it retrieved.
Get an icon next to your name by signing up for a free Gravatar
I dont think this is true…but if it is: TEAM BUTLER FOREVER!
Report this comment as spam or abuse
I hope this isn’t true, that would be just silly.
Report this comment as spam or abuse
It’s probably true to an extent. Like they tease each other about those things, but no one’s actually jealous or intending any kind of malice.
Report this comment as spam or abuse
i remember on set Miami vice there were the same gossips/rumors on Colin Farell and Jamie Fox!
Report this comment as spam or abuse
’tis a poor trawn Scot fer tae come up wih such a poor put-down.
Or something – my Scots dialect isn’t up to much
Basically your average Glasweigan 4 year old could come up with a better nickname than “The Fool”. As for “Gertard”… 
TBH I don’t believe this, although they probably don’t like each other much. If the nickname was closer to “The D*ckhead” then I would think it was more likely.
Report this comment as spam or abuse
The thing that cracked me up the most is that they put soap on the bow. I’m surprised Jamie Foxx didn’t rosin it… because he can do anything, man.
Report this comment as spam or abuse
Two upper level douches sniping at each other. I’ll go make the popcorn.
Report this comment as spam or abuse
“…he’s a much better dramatic actor than people give him credit for.”
That’s so funny, because up until his recent comeback all I thought of him as was a dramatic actor.
Report this comment as spam or abuse
if they are such enemies, why is butler nuzzling foxx’s face like that… WHY GOD WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
Report this comment as spam or abuse
My guess is that they are playing with each other. I don’t think this is serious at all.
Report this comment as spam or abuse
Here, Gerard, for future ref:
hauf-a-heid
blethering skite
chanty-wrastler
Report this comment as spam or abuse
So, any chance they were naked and oiled up during these fights?Hmmmm?
Report this comment as spam or abuse
we should come up with our own nicknames for jamie foxx that butler could use… any suggestions?
Report this comment as spam or abuse
Richard Dreyfuss learned how to fake play the piano for the movie The Competition, Geoffrey Rush was dubbed over by David Helfgott in Shine. So it’s not really surprising that they wouldn’t let an actor go ‘all the way’ and play for a movie… let’s just say it’s hard to become a concert musician in a couple of months.
Report this comment as spam or abuse
Overinflated male egos.
Report this comment as spam or abuse
The battle of the douches. FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!!!
Report this comment as spam or abuse
Hollywood think it has to pair all the stars in some kind of battle to get attention. Hollywood don’t rely on real talent any more.
Report this comment as spam or abuse
To me, the nicknames sound ironic. I’d guess they are getting along very well and it’s just teasing. “Ger-tard” is just so over the top, it has to be a joke.
Report this comment as spam or abuse
I don’t believe this, it’s a load of rubbish. Star will do any thing to get attention for it’s magazine sales. With any luck they will go out of business.
Report this comment as spam or abuse
You should go and see The Soloist Kaiser! Support it on opening weekend. I don’t know when it will be released in my country. Hopefully soon!
Report this comment as spam or abuse
Agreed on RDJ;I always have thought of him as a dramatic actor,as well. Only his ‘big surprise comback of the year’ had him doing alternative genres. And,why was it such as surprise? the only surprise is that he’s stayed clean-yeah for him-but i’ve always thought he was one of the best actors out there….loved him all the way back to that robert altman film,and less than zero. RDJ is always good-hits it out of the park no matter what he does,IMO-even ally mcbeal. he’s on it.
Report this comment as spam or abuse
And,i know this is supposed to be about those other two…but back to RDJ; i think i read that ben stiller learned alot from him and was blown away by him in tropic thunder???
Report this comment as spam or abuse
Why does it matter that he didn’t play the cello? Isn’t it rather insulting to think that an actor could learn to play such a difficult instrument in a few months that it took his teacher 20 years to master?
Report this comment as spam or abuse