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By now the entire world has seen the photos of 50 Cent over sixty pounds skinnier for his role in the film Things Fall Apart. 50 is quick to show though that he has already gained the muscle back (see pic taken this week) but is still dedicated to taking his acting skills to the next level. He recently interviewed with Cleveland.com where he goes into why he was willing to lose all the weight and take the role of a cancer victim.
Tell us about this upcoming movie that has had our interview schedule so crazy…
“Things Fall Apart?” Oh, it’s myself Mario Van Peebles, Ray Liotta, Lynn Whitfield and it’s a project that I wrote, produced and financed myself. It’s about a Heisman hopeful who could possibly be going to the league and everyone is assuming he’s gonna make it and then he’s hit with an illness. I had a friend of mine who actually experienced cancer and it’s what motivated me to write this screenplay. You don’t have to make everything personal, but that project was. That’s why I committed to playing a role where I lost 54 pounds.
Wow! Fifty-four pounds?
I had to discipline myself enough until I achieved it but… I got it.
I’m sure you don’t plan on being a hip-hop artist forever, so is film your ultimate career goal?
You have artists that defy the laws of that like LL Cool J and Jay-Z and even further than that Dr. Dre. Some artists have some age on them and still are relevant to hip-hop culture. For me it changes. I’m actually passionate about the actual music when it’s done right. But, sometimes I feel like something is right that the public didn’t respond to, just me creatively. Because of that, I’ll perform the record until they actually enjoy it [laughs]. But the reality is they won’t embrace every idea you come up with, not all of your life. I have artists I have a lot of respect for who aren’t the same as when they started and they’re great artists. Look at Stevie Wonder… I think the business itself is conditioned to say ‘out with the old in with the new.’ I’ll continue to make music because I love it, but I developed an interest in other areas because a lot of times to escape music, for enjoyment I might go and watch film or television and there’s an interest there because I’ve been utilizing that for entertainment for so long. And just having the financial freedom, from music, to be able to finance things when I feel like it as oppose to waiting for Hollywood. There’s not a whole lot of actual situations where a studio will break for four months to allow the talent to make the transition they allowed Tom Hanks to make in “Philadelphia.” You gotta be Tom Hanks for that to happen.
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