Usher To Play Sugar Ray Leonard In Movie 'Hands Of Stone' along with Robert De Niro!

[Atreyu Khalil]

Usher has been tapped to play boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard in the upcoming film Hands of Stone, the singer confirmed in an interview with BBC.


"I'm in preparation for a very incredible role," Usher said. "If you see me in the corners boxing, I'm doing that while working on this album."

Usher will star opposite Robert De Niro and Gael Garcia Bernal in the picture, which tells the story of another ring great, Roberto Duran.

De Niro is cast as boxing trainer Ray Arcell - who coached Duran to 18 world champions.

Leonard won championships in five different weight classes. He fought Duran on three separate occasions - winning twice.

No word yet on when production will start.
http://www.thisis50.com/profiles/blo...hands-of-stone

Gael Garcia Bernal will play Duran

[The Gambler1981]

That makes me frown

[Larry the boss]

wtf??hell naw...........

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Why Usher? Are there no young black men who are actually actors???

[4Corners]

What the f**k??? This just confirms the fact that the movie is going be terrible. I like De Niro, one of my favorite actors of all-time, but even he can't save this s**t. De Niro and Pacino are in it for Paychecks at this point, the last really good movie De Niro was in was Heat.

De Niro is the GOAT to me, my favorite, but this movie will suck. And Usher playing Ray.....the f**k???

[immortal tech]

Why Usher? Are there no young black men who are actually actors???

just Will smith but he can't be Ali and SRL

[AntonTheMeh]

if jay hernandez aint playing duran, its already a fail.

[chiguy91]

this has already been shared, but isn't it al pacino who will play ray arcel?

[Hougigo]

nope.... not good

[_original_]

I thought it was Al Pachino too? WTF???


And people are such haters, the movie isn't out yet, not even a glimpse of Usher's portrayal and already people are being negative. SMH, Usher will put on a great performance, the guy is gonna be a great SRL. Look up his background, he's done some acting before so no need to ignorant.