Jamie Foxx Pities the Spidey Fool in 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2'
"We wanted Electro to disrespect Spider-Man" — so says Jamie Foxx about his upcoming villainous turn in " The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ." So in order to get under Spidey's skin, Foxx channeled one of the most-quoted baddies in cinema history Clubber Lang , aka Mr. T. In other words, Electro pities the Spider-fool. "What we wanted to do with Electro ... we wanna capture when Mr. T fought Rocky . He didn't even say, 'I'm gonna beat you up, Rocky.' He was talking to his girl: 'Hey pretty girl. You need a real man.' I was thinking 'Aw man, that's so disrespectful,'" Foxx told Yahoo recently while promoting Canon's Project Imaginat10n , a worldwide contest for which he directed a short film. [Related: Watch Jamie Foxx Talk Directing With Ron Howard ] View gallery . Jamie Foxx's inspiration for 'Spidey-2' villain Electro might surprise you. ( Francois Durand for Getty Images/ … ...