Jamie, right kind me if I am fallacious, however that is your first vampire movie, if now not your first horror movie. Have been there any specific vampire motion pictures on your lifestyles that you just noticed that made you are saying, “I have were given to be in a kind of one day”?
Foxx: [I was] looking at Eddie Murphy in “Vampire in Brooklyn” as a result of I am the Eddie Murphy fan, however [also] looking at Bela Lugosi in the ones previous vampire motion pictures. I believe George Hamilton performed a vampire at one level again within the day, proper?
Proper. “Love at First Chew.”
Foxx: “Love at First Chew” — yeah. However what made this so cool was once having my man subsequent to me, Dave Franco, who I have been making an attempt to get in a movie for the longest [time]. I used to be relationship this man. I used to be sending him textual content messages with footage of him. I might ship him footage of himself and say, “How are you this humorous and this handsome?” I have were given this image the place he’s in a ridicule [turtle]neck and he is smoldering together with his nice seems.
I used to be like, if we are in a position to as soon as once more get into this loopy vampire international, however have now not simply the comedy — as a result of it is humorous — after which impulsively it turns into tremendous ass-kicking … Then [I was] brilliantly shocked with how athletic he was once and how he instructed the stunt guys, “Let’s push it additional.”
Franco: [I said], “Let’s stay going. Let’s stay going.” The stunt staff had positive targets for us. They are like, “If we will be able to get you to do those strikes on digicam, we are golden.” I used to be like, “No, no, no, let’s move previous that. Let’s marvel our director [J.J. Perry]. Let’s give him stuff he is not even anticipating.” [I wanted to do it] as a result of I performed sports activities my complete lifestyles and I really like getting bodily for those motion pictures — and I for sure were given some bruises and scars to display for it, however it was once so amusing.
“Day Shift” premieres solely on Netflix Friday, August 12.
This interview was once edited for readability.
