Steve Howey Talks Netflix’s Day Shift, Says Jamie Foxx is the GOAT

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Bud Jablonski (Jamie Foxx) is a vampire hunter disguised as a pool cleaner in Day Shift. Bud has been outcasted by a union of hunters and turns to Big John Elliot (Snoop Dogg) for a chance to return so that he can get higher rates on vampire fangs and provide for his family. Ralph Seeger (Eric Lange) will do anything to stop this from happening and assigns Seth (Dave Franco) to watch over Bud during a probationary period. As Bud advances on his journey, his past hunting comes back to haunt him as an elder vampire Audrey (Karla Souza) seeks revenge.

Foxx and Snoop Dogg mow down vampires and Franco delivers hilarity in this high-stakes actioner. Natasha Liu Bordizzo also stars in the film, and rounding out the cast are Meagan Good, Scott Adkins, Oliver Masucci, Zion Broadnax, Peter Stormare, and Steve Howey.

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“It took their attention from their iPad!” joked Howey as he recalled watching Day Shift for the first time with his kids. “I was like, ‘There we go, we’re watching the movie.’ They said some really nice things about the movie and that was awesome.”

Howey plays a Navarian brother in Day Shift alongside Adkins. Together, the duo is famous for going town to town, hunting vampires in high-stunt fashion for big cash. There’s a scene that stands out featuring the duo where they enter a vampire hive with Foxx and Franco and lay a several-minute-long beatdown on dozens of vampires.

Working With Jamie Foxx on Day Shift

“I’ve been doing this for 20-plus years, and I’ve met a lot of cool people, and I’ve met a lot of not-so-cool people. Jamie Foxx is the [expletive] GOAT. He’s a legend. He’s the closest thing we have to the Rat Pack. He’s an MC, stand-up comic, singer, Oscar winner, and cool as an ice cube,” said Howey. “It was just such a please,” he continued, “It was such a good vibe, and it all trickles down from that number one… when number one is the coolest, everybody’s cool… there’s a synergy, and that translates into the show.”

“Dave Franco was a sweetheart, and he’s hilarious in the movie, and Snoop Dogg has a cowboy hat and a gun… Scott Adkins plays my brother — he’s a famous martial artist — he’s been starring in his own martial art movies for decades. He’s doing jump roundhouses. I’m a television and movie actor who mostly stays in his trailer, and I’m sweating [during filming] going ‘Wow, I’m a [expletive] cheetah! This is what I was born to do,’ and then I look back at takes with the stunt coordinator, and I’m like, ‘I’m going in slow motion.’ It was a completely different world for me to do all these stunts… and these guys were all top-notch,” added Howey.


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Action Scenes in Day Shift

Howey continued to explain looking at the takes with the stunt coordinator, noting that capturing his action scenes were like “doing the salsa,” as in he had to exaggerate in certain ways to reach the desired outcome on screen. “He goes [the stunt coordinator], ‘You have to snap the punch, and then bring it back really fast,’ and I go, ‘that looks ridiculous.’ We recorded it, and I go, ‘it looks normal.’ You can do it like your regular punch, but it’s the opposite. It’s so exaggerated because you’re doing it for the camera, and the angles of it,” said Howey.

“They had it all staked out,” said Howey when asked about how long it took to capture the vampire hive scene, “while they were setting up, we were rehearsing the stunts.” In doing so, they were able to accomplish everything within a few days. “I was a fan of horror movies back in the day,” added Howey, “like the classics… but this is better. This is like an action-horror movie, and I really like how they did the set deck of the office and the vampire hunters… it was all like the ’80s… an interesting touch, and it’s all in a completely different world of Los Angeles.”


Day Shift is directed by J.J. Perry and written by Tyler Tice and Shay Hatten. It’s set to release on August 12, 2022, on Netflix.

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