Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.
Comedy just seemed like the way in.
I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny.
In this movie, I wanted to do a black-white relationship that wasn't playing on all the old cliches. Y'know, the black guy has just got out of jail or whatever.
Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?
That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap.
That's how I found myself in the advertising world, with my partner. I was trying to get a tape of me doing something that I thought was funny.
You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's the role they want to fulfill, they need to send a clearer message.
Orlando Jones is one out of seven of the original MADtv cast members to engage in some form of voice work after leaving the show. Only Bryan Callen and Craig Anton have not appeared in voice acting projects.
He is 6ft. 2in. tall.
He graduated from the College of Charleston, Charleston.
He graduated from Mauldin High, Mauldin.
Orlando Jones was the voice of a Marine sergeant in the video games Halo 2 (2004) and Ty Malix in L.A. Rush (2005).
Orlando was once the spokesman for 7-Up.
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