1_75.jpg) Andre 3000 of OutKast is expanding his film resume with a role in the upcoming Will Ferrell comedy, Semi-Pro. The outrageous New Line Cinema feature centers on a 1976 basketball team in the ABA, the league that rivaled the NBA.
Ferrell plays Jackie Moon, a one-hit pop music wonder who buys the Flint Michigan Tropics, the worst team in the league. Andre 3000, aka Andre Benjamin, plays Clarence Withers, the shooting guard for the Tropics.
Semi-Pro also stars Woody Harrelson and ER's Maura Tierney, among others.
Benjamin first hit the big screen in 2005's Be Cool, directed by F. Gary Gray, who saw the Atlanta artist's potential after directing him in OutKast videos. Andre explained: "I've known Gary Gray since our first album, SouthernPlayalisticCadillacMuzik. And so the next time we met was on 'Miss Jackson,' he directed that video, and we were doing the shot and there was a closeup, and I was running around the house, trying to put pots and pans to fill up all the leaks in the ceiling. And the closeup, and I look up and the sun's coming through or something. He was looking at the playback monitor and he said, 'I think you're gonna be good in film.'"
Since taking on the comic role of Dabu in Be Cool, Benjamin has appeared in Four Brothers, Idlewild, and the recently released Revolver.
Benjamin currently voices, produces, and provides music for the animated hit Class Of 3000.
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