Uncut Gems’ producers weren’t thrilled that Julia Fox was Josh Safdie’s muse
Fox writes about landing her breakout role and more in new memoir Down The Drain
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According to Julia Fox’s new memoir, we almost didn’t get the mispronunciation heard ‘round the world, much less the star-making performance in Uncut Gems that made the former dominatrix an overnight sensation.
In the book, titled Down The Drain (via People), Fox said that producers on the Adam Sandler vehicle were initially skeptical of her since she was such an unknown, despite the fact that co-writer Josh Safdie had been telling her for five years that she was perfect for the role (as anyone with an internet connection probably knows by now). Instead, the studio was reportedly pushing for “someone with a big name, like Lady Gaga or Jennifer Lawrence.” When Fox aced her screen test and finally landed the role, she said it felt like winning the lottery.
Despite the odds against her, however, Fox knew that “there was just no way someone could play that part better than me,” as she told Interview Magazine in 2019. “I’ve crossed paths with so many different people from all walks of life,” she went on. “Any situation you put me in, I can manage. From the Ritz to the trap house, I’ll find some sort of common ground with anyone.” The fictional character, also named Julia, is “a young girl from New York City, and she’s been on her own her whole life… although we are very different, I’ve been there. I’ve been that girl.”
This much is apparent from the rest of Fox’s memoir, in which she goes into detail on her brief relationship with Kanye West (who she says “weaponized” her as “his little puppet”) and her early experience with sex, drugs, and shoplifting (she said tried marijuana for the first time at age 11, stole clothes with her best friend at 12 to “appear richer,” and lost her virginity at 14 to a 23-year-old who would drive her to abandoned churches to have sex). She also discusses her brief tenure as a dominatrix and her experience giving birth to and raising her now two-year-old son, Valentino.
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Ok, what is the “mispronunciation heard ‘round the world”? I clicked that link but it was just a boring TikTok exchange.
Referring to this thing, I think? Seemed like a bit of a non-story to me at the time but whatever. https://www.indy100.com/celebrities/julia-fox-pronunciation-uncut-gems
jfc, yep, that’s it. I don’t understand that part of internet culture.
Adeel Dazeem this is not.
So she got dragged for having an NY dialect that flattened the E in gems slightly so that if you really strain to hear it it sounds vaguely like she pronounced it “jams?” The outrage!
Under an Instagram post by Page Six displaying one of the parodies, Fox commented: “Omggggg I was stoned leave me alone!!!!” Per https://www.indy100.com/celebrities/julia-fox-pronunciation-uncut-gems posted above.
“uncut jaaaaams”
I just looked at the video that anthropoarchal bullshit posted. She pronounces it Unka Jahms, with an emphasis on Jahms. Say it like it’s one word. Truly bizarre. It sounds like she’s trying to pronounce some foreign country or enthic dish.
Movie producers wanted famous people to star in their movie. News at 11.
Yeah, this is such a nothing story. Studio not sure about first-time actor taking small but important role, accepts casting after she does well on screen test. Same actor heard using slighly odd vocal affectation during promotional interview.
Worse, the headline is so weird. It suggests that someone at the studio was uncomfortable with Fox and Safdie’s relationship when really they just wanted a known actress.
And she’s not exactly the most reliable narrator either. This could all be a delusion she put on paper.
When have we had a Something story lately?
We get plenty of something stories here, I’ll have you know, and they’re posted almost as soon as someone else reports them.
Hahahaaa! 😀
Is the boob printed on her top/dress supposed to be toward the center like that, or is the fit just weird? It’s driving me nuts.
I was trying to figure out who this is, what “Uncut Gems” is, whether this has anything to do with the Transformers debacle(s), and then that outfit.I think it’s someone standing slightly turned – the lines make it appear that you’re not looking at the body printed on the shirt straight on.
It’s partly the way she’s posing, and the fit might be a little weird.
All I know is I want a top like that so I can drive people nuts!“Are those your Moobs? Why are your Moobs off-center???”
I am so glad that it wasn’t just me that seemed oddly bothered by it.
The image on the print is angled to the viewer’s left going by the throat line
It’s brilliant
It was a really terrific performance. Just too bad Fox seems to have used the notoriety for its own sake, doubling down on her antics and pretty well scuppering the opportunity. Because when I saw Uncut Gems, I felt sure she was going to be a great new actor. Now, I doubt it.
She’s got a new movie coming out with John McEnroe, Paris Hilton, and Gayle King. She’ll be fine.
Especially since none of her co-stars you listed are actual actors.
That is a cast that spells box office bonanza!
“Cast spells” in the same sentence confused me, lol.
The fuck is McEnroe doing in there??
He did do a good voiceover on “Never Have I Ever.”
If Omarosa’s not in it, why should we even care?
May be that movie Julia pretty much was IRL Julia (supported by Safdie’s comments). What I’d like to know is in what context he knew her five years prior to making Uncut Gems.
I mean I’ve heard all kinds of rumors ranging from that she deals/does coke to she’s a high price escort.
I’d credit the Safdie’s casting instincts over her thespian abilities…
she was pretty bad in the no sudden move and soderbergh and he’s got a pretty great track record of making people look good.
Ominous title for a memoir. Then again, writing a memoir at 33 is a bit ominous in itself. Is Julia Fox being watched?
I remember so many articles saying she’s the next big star after Uncut Gems came out. I thought she was going to be too. Nope! I don’t even know what she is at this point in time.
She’s an autobiographer.
She is this decade’s Phoebe Price: famous for being famous, wearing crazy clothes and will gladly attend the opening of a door as long as there are cameras there.
Weird flex that she was “that girl that came up on her own performing in New York” when that is more or less also Lady Gaga’s backstory. Maybe she just doesn’t know.
Nothing to add to this particular article, just want to say that the moment in Uncut Gems where Adam Sandler sobs upon seeing her ass tattoo is one of the funniest scenes in any movie ever.
She can’t act. That’s why she doesn’t get acting gigs. She was great in Uncut Gems. But watching her just a few months later in No Sudden Move, I got the impression she had no idea what she was doing. Deer in the headlights kind of thing.
Headline image makes me think “American McGee’s Pippie Longstocking”.
i thought julia fox was a collective delusion
So she is a hybrid of Julia Stiles and Megan Fox?