Written by NmyHood
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28 May 2010
The shocking photos that appeared earlier this week of a dramatically gaunt 50 Cent is just another example of the extremes to which he'll go to win. The G-Unit general lost the weight for a role as a football player with cancer in the upcoming "Things Fall Apart," and he spoke to Cleveland's Call and Post about why the movie was worth the sacrifice.
"It's myself, Mario Van Peebles, Ray Liotta, Lynn Whitfield, and it's a project that I wrote, produced and financed myself," he said of the film. "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. I had to discipline myself enough until I achieved it but ... I got it."
