Article: WILD `KINGDOM'; Jamie Foxx hunts down terrorists in new thriller.(Arts and Lifestyle)

Byline: STEPHEN SCHAEFER

Jamie Foxx is looking pretty serious these days, for a guy once exclusively considered a comedian.

In his latest film, "The Kingdom," opening Friday, Foxx stars as Ronald Fleury, leader of an FBI unit sent to Saudi Arabia to investigate a terrorist attack. The part comes on the heels of weighty roles in "Dreamgirls," "Miami Vice," "Jarhead" and "Ray," for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor.

"Sometimes it pulls at your comedic soul," said the actor, who started as a stand-up comic and appeared on his own TV comedy series on the WB, "because you'll watch Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy and you just go, `Man!' But every ...

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