- Jones is to star in FX weeknight half-hour talk show which is planned to premiere by early next summer. (December 12, 2002)
- While Jones travels through Europe promoting his new movie Evolution, he'll be faced with a dilemma - deciding whether to play a pimp or a jewel thief in his next film.
- In SAY IT ISN'T SO (2001), briefly features RETURN OF THE TRES, performed by Delinquent Habits -- a song prominently featured in DOUBLE TAKE (2001), a movie he starred in prior to this film.
- Just before his interview in THE REPLACEMENTS (2000), Clifford Franklin (Orlando Jones) can be seen holding a 7-Up soda can. He is the official spokesman for 7-Up products.
- The passage that he reads to the Eloi people in THE TIME MACHINE (2002) is from Chapter 17 of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
- When Jim Kurring (John C. Reilly) loses his gun, a person wearing a hooded jacket appears very briefly. It is actor Orlando Jones whose scenes were left on the editing room floor (MAGNOLIA (1999)).
- Is the 7-Up commercial guy. His big line, Make 7...Up Yours!
- Is a vegetarian.
- His father played professional baseball for the Philidelphia Phillies.
Quotes- "No matter how accustomed you become to this business, sometimes you have to pinch yourself and say, 'Jesus Christ, this is a long way from riding my bike across the Ashley River bridge.'"
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