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Djimon Gaston Hounsou (born April 24, 1964) is a Beninese-American actor and model. He began his career appearing in music videos, made his film debut in Without You I'm Nothing and earned widespread recognition for his role as Cinqué in the Steven Spielberg film Amistad. As an actor, Hounsou has been nominated for two Academy Awards. Hounsou became a naturalized American citizen in 2007. He was reluctant to renounce his Beninese citizenship and therefore opted to become a dual citizen of both Benin and the United States, effectively rendering him a Beninese-American. Djimon Hounsou was born in Cotonou, Benin, in 1964, to lbertine and Pierre Hounsou. He immigrated to Lyon in France at the age of thirteen with his brother, Edmond. In 1987, he became a model and established a career in Paris. He moved to the U.S. in 1990. One year before obtaining his college degree, he dropped out of school. In 1989, he appeared in a music video of Straight Up by Paula Abdul. Hounsou's film debut was in the 1990 Sandra Bernhard film Without You I’m Nothing, and he has had television roles on Beverly Hills, 90210 and ER and a guest starring role on Alias, but received a larger role in the science fiction film Stargate. His first on-screen appearance was in the 1990 Janet Jackson video “Love Will Never Do (Without You).” He also starred in a 2002 Gap commercial directed by Peter Lindbergh, dancing to a rendition of John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom" by Arrested Development's Baba Oje. He received wide critical acclaim and a Golden Globe Award nomination for his role as Cinqué in the 1997 Steven Spielberg film Amistad. He gained further notice as Juba, in the 2000 film Gladiator. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for In America, in 2004, becoming the fourth African male to be nominated for an Oscar (along with Basil Rathbone, Cecil Kellaway and Omar Sharif). In 2006, he won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Blood Diamond; he received Broadcast Film Critics Association, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Academy Award nominations for this performance. In 2007, Hounsou began dating model/CEO of Baby Phat, Kimora Lee Simmons. In 2008 Hounsou and Simmons visited Hounsou's family and while there, the two participated in a traditional commitment ceremony. On May 30, 2009, Simmons gave birth to their son, Kenzo Lee Hounsou, reportedly named because Kenzo means 3 (Kimora's third child).
Djimon Hounsou
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for Zodak in Justin Mark's Grayskull: The Masters Of The Universe (2009)
Suggested by smurphys_law
After John Woo's attempt at a MOTU movie didn't come to fruition 20th Century Fox let the rights go back to Mattel, a writer at Silver Pictures named Kristian Harloff heard word that a script for a MOTU movie was in turnaround, being a lifelong fan of the I.P he wanted to give the script a read and after reading it he didn't like the current script and decided to make a treatment and try and get it picked up, with help of Mark E Reilly they pitched the idea to Legendary Pictures who was working with Warner Bros at the time Harloff had a meeting with Neal at Legendary and approved of the treatment and told Harloff that he'll see what he can do but a few weeks later Neal told him that the Studio passed on it because they were making a reboot of Conan the Barbarian and the movies felt too similar to each other so they decided to pass on MOTU and it was cut off like that, however Neal had kept treatment and sought to make it into a full script behind Harloff's back and hired Justin Marks to rewrite it and was now moving ahead at Warner Bros it was envisioned as an ambitious Lord of the Rings type of film, however they struggled to find a director but eventually John Stevenson was chosen to direct the film but however things stalled as a new writer was hired to rewrite the film and WB and Mattel were clashing over how the movie should be, and after awhile things fell apart, however what if this came to fruition? This is who i feel could've been casted in the roles.
