With Django Unchained coming out this Christmas, it makes sense that we’re seeing Jamie Foxx and the beautiful Kerry Washington damn near everywhere–specifically on magazine covers. The latest one they’ve got under their belts is Los Angeles Confidential magazine, where the duo, who is reuniting after first having sparks fly on-screen in Ray, get old Hollywood fab in new fashions.

In the magazine the two talk about their chemistry, which is so apparent to everyone, including the camera according to the photographer Brian Bowen Smith, who was caught saying this during the shoot: “So, so swexy…I think my camera is sweating a little.”

“And here’s the life lesson. You realize what people went through so we could have a voice. Every second on this movie, I thought about how unbelievably good I have it. I don’t have s**t to complain about. ‘Oh, you brought me Arrowhead water? I asked for Fiji! I can taste the difference.’ When you see what real s**t is, man? All you can say is, my life is motherf—ing surreal.”

But here’s the thing about being a black entertainer. You can never be mediocre. White comedians can walk up to the microphone and go, ‘Hey guys, where ya from?’ With black comedians, you have to shoot a short film, you have to play your own music, there’s dancing, there’s smoke, and then you rise up out of the stage.”

“My grandmother was a maid on Park Avenue and her grandmother was a slave. The expectations about what’s possible for African Americans is always shifting and always growing, but Jamie’s right: If you’re black in Hollywood, you have to be twice as good and work twice as hard as everybody else.”