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What’s better than R. Kelly reading R. Kelly? Nothing. What’s the next best thing? Gary Oldman reading R. Kelly.
The inimitable, Academy Award-nominated actor and Royal Shakespeare Company alumnus, best known around these parts for his role in Kung Fu Panda 2, stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live last night to deliver a dramatic reading from soul legend R. Kelly’s much-anticipated autobiography, Soulacoaster: The Diary of Me.
Oldman arrived in tuxedo and white scarf, holding Soulacoaster at his naval as if he were delivering a sermon. For just over a minute, he recited with eloquence a passage that details a chance encounter between Kels and the rapper Tupac Shakur.
“We’ll just let it do what it do.”
Oldman’s delivery certainly gets a boost from the dimly lit stage and a straining chorus of violins, but this is the kind of stuff that would bring out the waterworks if it was recited outside of a bathroom stall in New York’s Union Square subway station.
That’s, um, what Soulercoaster‘s going to be like, I guess. We eagerly anticipate William Shatner‘s next move.
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