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Cuba Gooding Jr.
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MTV - The introduction from "Snow Dogs" star Cuba Gooding Jr. That must have been a hell of a gift bag they were offering. Cool : Daft Punk suiting up for their first-ever TV appearance backing Kanye West on "Stronger." Really?
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Cuba Gooding Jr. is one of the most charismatic and captivating performers on the screen today. His remarkable versatility, combined with the unique depth he brings to his roles has made him one of the most sought-after actors of his generation.
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These days, Cuba Gooding Jr. hardly has time to come up for air - literally. Apart from shooting the all-star screwball comedy Rat Race, he had already completed three major films, including Jerry Bruckheimer's retelling of Pearl Harbor and the just released Men Of Honor, the based on true story of Carl Brashear, the first African-American to overcome vicious racial barricades imposed by the US Navy in its elite diving program. Brashear rose to the highest rank of the program, Master Diver, despite a crippling injury sustained while on duty. Gooding admits that this is the proudest he has been of any movie he has done. "When I read this script I didn't know this part of history and that there was a diver like this", Gooding explains. "I felt this role was something I could lose my soul emotionally and yet still be in the parameters of what this man has done and accomplished."
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Cuba Gooding Jr. has had the same kind of career, albeit a miniature version. He ... enjoyed a brilliant flash of fame early in his career. He starred in the powerful Boyz N the Hood in 1991, followed up with a supporting role in A Few Good Men, and was generally lauded far and wide. Then he had a few bad years, made a few bad films (Gladiator -- no, not the one with Russell Crowe, Judgment Night), and next thing you know, there he was in 1994's unfortunate Lightning Jack, playing a mute, uncomfortably Stepin Fetchit-esque sidekick to fellow career freefaller Paul "Crocodile Dundee" Hogan. Then, Cameron Crowe yanked him from career purgatory and cast him as wide receiver Rod Tidwell in 1995's Jerry Maguire. Gooding shone.
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Cuba Gooding Jr. has been tapped to star in action thriller Untitled Gehenna Project, which is being directed by Sean Connery's son, Jason Connery (Pandemic). Gooding will play a member of an elite group of soldiers. Also cast as soliders are Taryn Manning (Hustle & Flow), Jason London (Wildfire), Franky G (Smith, Jonny Zero), Zack Ward (L.A. Twister), Stephanie Jacobson (Battlestar Galactica: Razor), and Brandon Fobbs (Pride, The Wire). The group is sent on a convert mission by a government agent, played by Valerie Cruz (Nip/Tuck), to retrieve a missing scientist, played by Ron Perlman (Hellboy Animated), from an underground lab. Along the way they run into a priest (rocker Henry Rollins) who tells them an ''ancient evil'' has been released, causing their greatest fears to come to life.
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Dj Cuba Gooding Jr was originally a brothel in Glasgow, and then moved on to become a well-known hollywood actor, until finally settling in its present home as a new wave electro act. Since then it has been enjoying itself immensely while performing with such acts as Soviet, Avenue D, She Wants Revenge, VHS or Beta, and Freezepop.
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