Freeway


Neither the closing credits nor IMDb's cast listing shows the actor's name who played Freeway, the guy who started and stopped the music at the dance studio. Anyone have any ideas?

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They called him "1960s record player" or something like that.

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OT, but I love your sig, hedgehogg.

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I'am guesting you like my name freeway,but that is just my name in the movie.My stage name is LYFE.

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No, wrong guy. "1960s record player" was a totally different character.

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My name is Terry Lyfe Jackson and i was born Columbia Mississippi. My stage name is LYFE. It stands for LOVE YOURSELF FOREVER Eterinty.

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your really the actor who played "Freeway"? cool.

I do have a question or 3, tho.
were you really playing the music, or was that inserted later (in post)?
and did you catch the time when Marienne/Mary Steenburgen asked you to stop and the music stopped BEFORE you moved? (yeah, it's a goof!)

other than that, I hear Mary is quite pleasant in person, is this true?

were you intimidated/nervous around all the other 'name' actors?

and how thick is Robert Carlyle's accent off-camera? or did he try to keep his American accent 'on' when the camera wasn't rolling, as I hear his buddy/Full Monty co-star Mark Addy does?

GREAT movie, btw!

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Carlyle did have an accent in this movie that seemed to waver between Irish and Scottish.

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On the commentary track they talked about Freeway. He had come to LA after Hurricane Katrina and had lost some of his family. He was also a dancer so at the end they asked him to do a few steps and he did.

They also said Robert Carlyle had such a thick Scottish accent on the telephone they couldn't understand him. They figured Americans wouldn't either. So they asked him to do a sort of Irish accent figuring Americans would be more acquainted with it. They didn't want him to pretend to be an American because his character was supposed to be an outsider in life.




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It's a real shame that they left him out of the cast credits--instead, he's listed under "crew" as a stand-in, which is incorrect. Particularly as they talk about him incessantly in the commentary and say that they chose him for the part over four others...and particularly since the last scene of the entire film ends with his character! He played the part perfectly with a lot of style.

I tried to submit an add on the page, but I don't know if they'll accept it since the credits on the film got it wrong, too. (Weirdly, the director points out his name at the end of the credits, but his name isn't there. About 10 seconds later it appears under "stand-in." Totally lame...he wasn't a sub OR part of the crew.)

According to the commentary, he was originally from New Orleans and is, in fact, a dancer.

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commentary? looks like us region 2 people got shafted on another dvd release, the version i have (which is a legit copy) has no special features at all which i'm kind of annoyed about.

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