Jamie Foxx says he felt intimidated by Leonardo DiCaprio on 'Django Unchained,' so he secretly added 4 inches to his boots

Jamie Foxx wants you to cognize thing astir Leonardo DiCaprio: Even though you spot him connected yachts successful the South of France puffing distant connected his vape, he does not play astir erstwhile it comes to his craft.

In fact, he takes it truthful earnestly that, erstwhile DiCaprio turned up connected the group of 2012's Southern epic "Django Unchained," Foxx, 58, was truthful intimidated by the "Titanic" star's imposing beingness during rehearsals, he secretly added 4 inches to his boots.

During his quality connected "Baby, This Is Keke Palmer," which was released Tuesday, Foxx shared stories astir his clip pinch DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, and Christoph Waltz connected the group of Quentin Tarantino's seventh characteristic film, including really successful awe he was of some DiCaprio and Jackson.

Foxx said that the movie had immoderate 'go-getters'

Foxx told Palmer that for six weeks, it was conscionable Foxx and Waltz connected group — overmuch of the movie shows the 2 teaming up arsenic bounty hunters. But, eventually, DiCaprio and Jackson showed up to play plantation proprietor Calvin Candie and his loyal slave, Stephen, respectively.

Foxx joked that the 2 actors walked connected group smoking their vapes and "walking successful slow motion."

During their first rehearsal, if Foxx wasn't already intimidated enough, he realized that DiCaprio was taller than him, which meant during 1 of their scenes, DiCaprio would beryllium blowing fume straight into his face.

"I can't hit him," said Foxx, who is reportedly 5 feet 9 inches gangly compared to DiCaprio's reported 6 feet. "So I went to the wardrobe people. I said 'Miss Lady, I request you to put 4 inches successful my boots erstwhile I do this scene.'"

When she asked why, Foxx said he replied, "Don't interest astir it. I conscionable request 4 inches."

Foxx added that Jackson was "better than everybody" connected set, which DiCaprio agreed with, calling him "amazing," Foxx recalled.

Foxx said astir recovering from his 2023 stroke

Three years aft reports emerged successful April 2023 that Foxx had been hospitalized for an unspecified aesculapian emergency, the Oscar-winning character was capable to bespeak (and, of course, joke) during his quality connected Palmer's podcast astir the life-threatening situation.

"I couldn't make consciousness of it," Foxx said of the stroke, which followed a encephalon bleed and near him pinch nary representation of 20 days.

"The parts I do remember, the rehab part, was frustrating," he added.

Everyone astir him was talking astir 2nd chances, he said, but he was still angry astir his "first chance."

But 1 caregiver told Foxx that "less than 3%" of group who knowledgeable what he did time off alive. "We usually put them successful a box," she told him, he said.

Eventually, he turned to his trademark drama skills to cope. "They couldn't do wellness checks connected me, because I only had drama to thin on," he said.

His girl Corinne, besides a impermanent connected the podcast, said that erstwhile he was admitted to the rehab facility, her dada joked that he was Denzel Washington.

"That was the only measurement I could find myself," he said.