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"Thomas Jane has spoken out about being fired from the upcoming action movie Headshot. Jane was cast opposite Sylvester Stallone in the film earlier this year. However, producers later dropped Jane from the movie, which Jane now claims was in order to cast an &amp;quot;ethnic&amp;quot; actor in the role. The Deep Blue Sea star said that he initially had good feelings about the project, especially after Stallone took his advice and brought Walter Hill on board as director. &amp;quot;Well, [producer] Joel Silver came on board the project and said that he has a quote-unquote &amp;#039;formula&amp;#039; for these quote-unquote &amp;#039;buddy movies&amp;#039; and it has to be a white guy and a quote-unquote &amp;#039;ethnic guy&amp;#039;,&amp;quot; Jane alleged during a recent interview with Collider. &amp;quot;And they relieved me of duty and basically paid me off, which I was really upset about, you know. I didn&amp;#039;t get a call from Stallone, I was a little upset about that. Maybe they didn&amp;#039;t want anybody on the movie with a bigger d**k than him.&amp;quot; When asked whether he would have taken a different role if the film&amp;#039;s producers had offered it, Jane said that he would probably have refused due to feeling like &amp;quot;the spurned lover&amp;quot;. The film stars Stallone as a New Orleans hitman who is forced to work alongside a New York policeman to solve a murder. It was recently announced that American actor Sung Kang has been cast in the film as Stallone&amp;#039;s unlikely partner. Headshot is expected to reach cinemas in 2012. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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