When one of his final flicks, Soul Men, is released, Bernie Mac will not only be remembered for his comedic acting chops, but likewise his great singing voice.
Yes, his tattle voice.
"He by all odds can bear a tune," the movie's director Malcolm D.� Lee told me this morning. "He does a great falsetto in the picture show, and a baritone and alto as well. He has a range. He plays a range of emotions in the picture show as well as octaves."
In the November flick, Mac and Samuel L. Jackson star as soul singers who agree to reunify and do at a tribute for their recently deceased band leader after being estranged for a couple of decades.
"They do their possess singing and their have dancing in the moving-picture show," says Lee. "You suffer the opportunity to find out both of these guys go for it in a substantial way that's fun and energetic."
Mac and Jackson volition be included on the movie's soundtrack. "We prerecorded five songs with Sam and Bernie," Lee says. "One of them is original, and the rest of them are covers." (Lee declined to let on which covers, because he'd like to keep it a surprise.)
Lee last spoke to Mac on the final sidereal day of shooting in April. "When I went to shake his hand and tell him how much I loved him and what a great occupation he did, he hugged me back and looked me in the oculus and aforesaid, 'Make a great film, man,'�" Lee remembered. "I promised him that I would."
Lee also has special memories of Isaac Hayes. The music caption plays himself in Soul Men. "He was scripted into the script as himself," Lee said. "When I came on, they asked, 'Do you want him in the motion-picture show?' and I was like, 'Of course.' Not to include him in the movie would have been sacrilege. I had to have Isaac in the film."
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