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'I couldn't stop crying': Cuba Gooding Jr tells how he broke down while playing OJ Simpson - because
Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | 1/7/2016 | Alexandra Genova

Posted on 01/11/2016 6:09:05 AM PST by simpson96

It's the story that gripped nineties America and forged a racial divide across the nation.

But it was also about the tragic deaths of two people: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

The trial of O.J Simpson, now televised as part of a dramatic new series called American Crime Story, is a complex tale - and Cuba Gooding Jr, who plays O.J, reveals the intense sense of loss he experienced while filming it.

Gooding, 48, told The Hollywood Reporter: 'There was one day after filming that I went to my trailer and I couldn't stop crying because I realised I never [even considered the loss] for the Goldman or Brown family.'

'Back then, I was just so relieved that another black man got away from the injustice that was the LAPD. I was just so relieved that they didn't screw us over again.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: betterlatethannever; cubagoodingjr; gotawaywithmurder; hollyweirdvalues; hollywood; oj; ojsimpson; racerelation; racialdivision; theman; waronwhites
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Actually, a lot of blacks thought he was guilty. They were glad he did it.


61 posted on 01/11/2016 8:02:21 AM PST by mumblypeg (I've seen the future; brother it is murder. -L. Cohen)
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To: pax_et_bonum

I agree. But the black-flak game might be eroding some now. Things like Facebook and Twitter will ultimately erode racial preference.


62 posted on 01/11/2016 8:04:32 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (1000 muslim migrant gang-rapists in Germany -- Trump helped trigger protests.)
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To: ponygirl

I remember not caring either way but one of my friends was obsessed with the trial. During the trial, he explained to me how OJ was innocent. After the verdict, he swore OJ was guilty.

My aunt went into mourning after the verdict, not because of the verdict, but because the trial was over. It consumed her life during that time.

I don’t watch TV so I never got involved with it. Two dead people in LA isn’t usually national news.


63 posted on 01/11/2016 8:08:44 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

I think it is eroding.

Of course there will always be racism and other -isms, but it’s encouraging to see that among most of the young people I know there’s acceptance of each other’s racial differences and that they even kid about race while being friends.


64 posted on 01/11/2016 8:10:30 AM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
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To: simpson96

‘Back then, I was just so relieved that another black man got away from the injustice that was the LAPD. I was just so relieved that they didn’t screw us over again.’


Race hate will make you blind. Blacks still believe they can not be racists; only whites, a race lower than them, can be racist and this is a major feature of their race hate doctrines. They call it “liberal.”


65 posted on 01/11/2016 8:15:57 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: pax_et_bonum

School bussing and affirmative action will have achieved nothing compared to the race-less nature of Twitter and Facebook. Race relations will improve through TECHNOLOGY, not through Obama and all the leftist garbage we have endured.


66 posted on 01/11/2016 8:18:31 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (1000 muslim migrant gang-rapists in Germany -- Trump helped trigger protests.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
. OJ went to jail any way and is still there !

You do have to give OJ props for putting the real killer behind bars.

67 posted on 01/11/2016 8:18:44 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: kidd

I always kind of liked Cuba Gooding Jr.

It’s like the song went in Team America:

I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school,
He was terrible in that film.
I need you like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part,
He’s way better then Ben Affleck.
And now all I can think about is your smile,
And that s....y movie too,
Pearl Harbor sucked and I miss you


68 posted on 01/11/2016 8:20:21 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: OldSmaj
I think you're lying through your teeth, Mr. Gooding...you could care less about a couple of honkies.

I think you mean "couldn't care less"...yes?

FMCDH(BITS)

69 posted on 01/11/2016 8:20:29 AM PST by nothingnew (Hemmer and MacCullum are the worst on FNC)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Good point. I hadn’t considered technology’s influence on overcoming racial prejudice.


70 posted on 01/11/2016 8:27:56 AM PST by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
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To: angcat
All slimy bastards evil they will pay one day Kardashian did.

What did you type? I can't understand it.

FMCDH(BITS)

71 posted on 01/11/2016 8:30:42 AM PST by nothingnew (Hemmer and MacCullum are the worst on FNC)
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To: pax_et_bonum

It just occurred to me too. Though I bet someone else thought of it first. It’s actually a spin-off of Drudge who predicted ‘the din of small voices’.


72 posted on 01/11/2016 8:31:09 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (1000 muslim migrant gang-rapists in Germany -- Trump helped trigger protests.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

What happened with Bailey?


73 posted on 01/11/2016 8:31:19 AM PST by Bikkuri ((...))
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
"Everybody plays the fool"

There was a country song, "Everybody's Somebody's Fool", too.

74 posted on 01/11/2016 8:31:26 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Bikkuri

He was involved with some stock scam with a drug dealer and got caught and was fined $5 million and was disbarred.


75 posted on 01/11/2016 9:16:22 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Can we please kill the guy already who invented the saying "My bad"?)
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To: nothingnew

OJ’s defense team they will all pay one day for what they did. I hated that ugly Barry Scheck.


76 posted on 01/11/2016 9:35:16 AM PST by angcat
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To: originalbuckeye

We lived in Chatsworth when the Northridge quake struck. I got up at 4:30 a.m. every morning,
and that morning I had just gotten to the bottom of the stairs when the quake hit.

I stood there in pitch blackness (the electricity was out) in the doorway to the kitchen and
listened to all the glass and china in our house fall and shatter on the kitchen and dining
room floors. They were tile floors, and we had quite a clean-up ahead of us. 6.8 earthquake
with several 5.0 aftershocks. Our library was tossed. Fallen shelves, books everywhere, just
a horrible mess and again, loss of anything breakable.

I went to work, but the facility wasn’t operable, so they sent everyone home to start making
the repairs. I didn’t work there for much longer, and eventually got a job where my husband
was working at my area of expertise, a printed wiring board manufacturing shop.

Our slimy liberal neighbors took a ton of FEMA money, while we did our repairs on our own.
We figured others needed it more than we did, and we got by all right.

That was a beautiful house (after we bought and repaired it) on a gorgeous plot of land with
a huge panorama from the upstairs rooms and a cute little pond in the back yard just off the
patio where we entertained our in-laws in the Summers. I wish we could have taken the entire
plot of land, house, pond, front and back yards, and all, wherever we moved. But no... Sigh...


77 posted on 01/11/2016 9:46:42 AM PST by TheOldLady (I miss the Gipper. Wish we still had someone like him. ~~~ Trump and Cruz!)
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To: r_barton
"Meh. My time is too valuable to waste on this crap again."

I was set to record the series, but then found out the second season, which hasn't even officially been ordered yet, will focus on Hurricane Katrina. I also thought that each episode would deal with a different story, but the whole 10 episodes in the first season is about the O.J. trial. I lived through it once. Don't need to see it again in a remake. There's better programs to watch out there.

78 posted on 01/11/2016 9:50:54 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Remember the song, and didn’t know his Dad was the lead singer. Thanks for the info.


79 posted on 01/11/2016 9:52:18 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: simpson96
"I remember when..."

I remember when some of the black females on the jury implied that Nicole Brown Simpson must have done something bad to deserve what happened to her.

I also remember Howard Stern saying that if O.J. was to be tried by his peers, the jury should have consisted of rich, white men who golfed.

80 posted on 01/11/2016 9:55:20 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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