Jamie Foxx may be preparing to direct and star in the upcoming basketball film All-Star Weekend, but the man proved on Tuesday he's an athletic all-rounder.
In a video for Sports Academy, he took time out from a training session at a Thousand Oaks Sports Academy to catch an American football flying at 100 miles per hour.
Brimming with bravado, the 48-year-old accomplished the feat not once, but twice, after vamping: 'Are you saying there's pressure? You know what I do to pressure? I make love to pressure.'
The video began with him in workout gear, facing the camera as he chummed about with actor Tony Besson.
It was Besson who'd said: 'So, here's the thing. We got a hundred-mile-an-hour club here,' to which the Oscar-winner instantly responded: 'Easy.'
'You don't even know what it is!' said Besson, laughing, and Foxx retorted with a grin: 'I don't care what it is. I go a hundred miles an hour my whole life.'
When he found out, however, that 'You gotta do it twice,' the Django Unchained star did swear, but he went ahead with the undertaking regardless.
The first time the JUGS machine launched the ball at him, he bent down a bit and caught it, eliciting whoops from the room.
Once the next time rolled around, he took a few steps forward, and managed another catch. Sauntering away from the camera, he crowed: 'Hands are on FIRE!'
All-Star Weekend will be the first feature film Foxx has written or directed, and will see him among a cast that includes Eva Longoria, Jessica Szohr and Jeremy Piven.
According to Deadline, the Ray star and the Entourage scenery-chewer embody a couple of basketball-fixated truck drivers who win NBC All-Star Game tickets.
Their comic misadventures over the course of the film will see cameos from such names as Floyd Mayweather, The Game and French Montana, as Foxx has dished to TMZ Sports.
[UK DAILYMAIL]
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