I've only seen Outkasts on stage once, circa "Bombs Over Baghdad", in the 200s at Theater at MSG (Ludacris opened) and I was suitably impressed. Andre 3000 was a charismatic fella, all but stole what wasn't tied down.
But I have been something of a naysayer since then. Outkast's "White Album" peaked high but wasn't very consistent, and Andre's solo stuff a bit too Roots-y for me: a natural born commercial band, they split up the band and never quite got it together again.
Still, this shouldn't effect Andree 3000, who is portraying Jimi Hendrix in the currently filming "All Is By My Side". What should effect the awfully named biopic is Andre's lack of acting material,. If any a role needed a great actor, this one did. It really is a good question: how do you portray the slur talking, nimble fingered, big fingered, big dicked legend, who choked to death on his vomit and invented whole new worlds of playing the electric guitar?
The man comes across in all that old film, as something of a spaced out hippie: his smartness but be there but you have to get past mountains of blankness to reach there. How can a non-actor (cmon, not seriously) like Andre hope to quiet his hyper active funkdom? Little Richards, yes. Jimi Hendrix? Not so fast…