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O.J. Simpson: Cuba Gooding Jr.’s head isn’t big enough to play me

O.J. Simpson thinks Cuba Gooding Jr. is a fine actor, but his head isn’t big enough to star as Simpson in “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.”

Former Nevada prison guard Jeffrey Felix — whose book “Guarding the Juice” is being published next month by ThomasMax — said the Lovelock Correctional Center doesn’t have FX, which is airing the series, and doesn’t allow DVDs either.

“He can’t watch it, but he’s heard a lot about it,” Felix told me. “He’s hearing it from the guards. He’s hearing it from Khloé Kardashian and from ‘A.C.’ Cowlings.”

Simpson, 68, is being held at Lovelock on a 2008 kidnapping and armed-robbery conviction. He’ll be eligible for parole in 2017.

Felix said, “O.J. … says [Gooding’s] not tall enough and his head is too small. O.J. has a huge head.”

Simpson’s yard name is Bobble Head, while the Native American inmates call him Buffalo, Felix said.

On a deeper level, Simpson is “upset” that the FX series ‎seems to suggest he’s guilty of murdering ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.

One episode shows O.J. taking a lie detector test, and getting a minus 24. “That’s a complete flunk,” Felix said. “But O.J. told me [years ago] he passed the lie detector.”

The slow-speed, white Bronco chase scene in the FX series missed the reason why Simpson decided not to commit suicide.

“The only reason he didn’t shoot himself in the head in the Bronco is that he saw a kid on the side of the road holding a sign saying, ‘We Heart You Juice!’” Felix said.

“It made him think of his own childhood, and about his own kids, and how they wouldn’t have any parents.”