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

[Toney Loc]

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

Gael Garcia Bernal is playing Duran. He's a very talented actor.

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

Yea, that's what I thought.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

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.

But he's not even an actor. Its kinda a slap in the face to young black actors.

[Hougigo]

But he's not even an actor. Its kinda a slap in the face to young black actors.

The only exception I would have made is if he looked like him...which he doesn't

[turbotime]

WTF? Usher is gonna look ridiculous with the mini fro Ray used to sport.

[_original_]

But he's not even an actor. Its kinda a slap in the face to young black actors.

Usher's done a little acting, thought he was pretty good in Light It Up. And he resembles Sugar Ray Leonard and has a boxer build body wise *pause*, plus he's a great dancer so that will help playing SRL in some of the fight scenes. I doubt his role is even that big plus he brings a huge name to a boxing film (along side Pachino).

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Usher's done a little acting, thought he was pretty good in Light It Up. And he resembles Sugar Ray Leonard and has a boxer build body wise *pause*, plus he's a great dancer so that will help playing SRL in some of the fight scenes. I doubt his role is even that big plus he brings a huge name to a boxing film (along side Pachino).

They might as well have really taken the piss and chosen Chris Brown

[sdcluser]

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

Sheeeit...at least it ain't CeeLo....

[jaded]

They might as well have really taken the piss and chosen Chris Brown

That Chris Brown can throw a punch to...ask Rihanna

[MRBOOMER]

Yeah yeah yeah yeah (usher voice) but in real life no wtf were they thinking? This is horrible

[Roman Moreno]

Too many people are making a big deal about this. This is a movie portraying the life of Duran. Not SRL, we don't even know yet how big of a role he is going to have. Everyone needs to calm down.