Awarded in Time: Talking Watches with Cuba Gooding, Jr.
In his eclectic career, Cuba Gooding Jr. has racked up awards, accolades, anecdotes ? and an enviable collection of timepieces. He speaks to WatchTime’s Mark Bernardo about all of them in this exclusive interview.
Cuba Gooding Jr. (photo: Liam O’Donnell)
He made ?Show me the money? a national catch-phrase with his Oscar-winning turn in Jerry Maguire, and inhabited real-life roles as diverse as U.S. Navy Master Diver Carl Brashear and football hero turned murder suspect O.J. Simpson. Now appearing on Broadway as Billy Flynn in Chicago, and making his big-screen directorial debut in this fall’s Bayou Caviar, the multitalented Cuba Gooding Jr. took time out of his hectic schedule to talk to WatchTime about watches ? why he appreciates them, how they?ve played a role in his entertainment career and why good timing is so important to success in acting and directing. MB: You were raised in an entertainment family; were watches part of your experience growing up"
CGJ: My father was a singer for a soul group in the ?70?s [The Main Ingredient, whose major hit was 1972?s ?Everybody Plays the Fool?], and he was all about bling and gold watches, because gold to him was the standard for success. He used to wear a gold Rolex with diamonds on it ? I don?t even know if it was real or not, or bought off the street ? but to him, it always represented excellence and success. So after I did my first successful film, Boyz n the Hood [1991], the first thing I went out and...
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