Jamie Foxx Says He Specifically Wanted to Star Alongside Dave Franco in Netflix’s ‘Day Shift’ and It Paid Off

Jamie Foxx lives to entertain, and that was exactly his goal with Day Shift.

His range as an actor is impressive—who else can effortlessly go from Oscar-winning biopics to vampire-hunting action flicks? The vampire genre has been around since the beginning of time and with Day Shift, Foxx has teamed up with costar, Dave Franco, to deliver a fresh, fun iteration that is sure to provide fans of these styles of films with the kind of bloody gore and excitement they adore. 

The film follows the story of a guy named Bud Jablonski (Foxx). Bud is a professional vampire hunter and killer but was kicked out of the vampire hunters union for breaking the rules and regulations. Now he is a pool cleaner in the San Fernando Valley to make ends meet, and kills vampires on the side to sell their fangs for extra cash. When his ex-wife Jocelyn Jablonski (Meagan Good) threatens to move away with their 10-year-old daughter (Zion Broadnax) to give her a better life, Bud goes crawling back to the union since they offer a higher premium for vampire kills.

“I have been tracking Dave Franco for a long time. I’ve even pitched him movies, I said I gotta be in business with this guy and now finally here we are,” Foxx tells Complex. “I don’t call it a coming-out party, because we already know how great he is, but to me, he got a chance to flex every muscle that I knew he would be able to do and just take over the film. Every time we came to set I was wondering, what’s he going to bring?”

Check out our full interview with Foxx, Franco, and Souza above, where they talk about Day Shift, working together, and if there is a sequel in store.