Comments Thread For: Jamie Foxx on Being Mike Tyson: It's The Most Dedicated I've Been!

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Actor Jamie Foxx has detailed his extensive training for his lead role as Mike Tyson in a planned biopic on the former undisputed heavyweight champion. According to Foxx, he's never been more dedicated to a role.
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Looking forward to this film. It should really tell Mike Tyson's side of his story.

Robin Givens on the other hand is concerned about how she will be portrayed. I guess she doesn't want a whole new generation to know what devious golddiggers she and her mother were.

[Blond Beast]

I think we’ve heard it all already. Unless we are going to see all the partying, girls, home life that there is no video of. The alleged ****? Prison? What do we expect to see really? I think it’s just a vanity project from Foxx also a reason to take sum gear and get in shape. I mean are we expected to see him play a 20yr old Tyson? If the scenes are full of personal stories from Mike himself that are new to us that could be cool. But if it’s just Foxx copying all the famous clips we have all seen a million times I couldn’t care less.

[Lomasexual]

Foxx has gotten into good shape for this.

The problem is that he has the usual Hollywood style gym physique. Tyson's physique was nothing like that.

Foxx is gonna need a prosthetic neck or something.

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If this movie is any good, it should reflect a comprehensive profile of a sexual and violent drug offender.

[tokon]

If this movie is any good, it should reflect a comprehensive profile of a sexual and violent drug offender.

Which, of course, it won't!
The reality of his life will be glossed over and the Blond Beast's post provides an accurate insight into how it will go!!

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Is there anything we are going to learn or view that's not been viewed from things before?

52 year old playing a younger 54 year old?...

Tyson was my man but Unless it's going to be something explosive like what really happened then I can't see what the fuss is going to be..

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Looking forward to this film. It should really tell Mike Tyson's side of his story.

Robin Givens on the other hand is concerned about how she will be portrayed. I guess she doesn't want a whole new generation to know what devious golddiggers she and her mother were.

"You know something," Tyson confides to Jose Torres, author of the Playboy article, "I like to hurt women when I make love to them... I like to hear them scream with pain, to see them bleed... It gives me pleasure."

"Just before the (Michael) Spinks fight, I asked him to tell me about the best punch he'd ever thrown. A broad smile covered his face and his answer burst out. 'Man, I'll never forget that punch. It was when I fought with Robin in Steve's apartment. She really offended me and I went bam,' he said, throwing a fast backhand into the air to illustrate. 'She flew backward, hitting every wall in the apartment. That was the best punch I've ever thrown in my life. (Givens) wanted to call the cops from my own telephone. Was she crazy or something?"

But Torres also recounts another side of Mike Tyson -- his melancholy, his self-loathing.

"People think I'm tough," the boxer told his Boswell last year. "I'm a coward. You know something, I feel like taking my own life... killing myself. But I don't have the guts to do it, you know what I mean?"

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Robin Given's personal views are not a threat to this films success, Mike Tyson's profane account of events and deplorable actions are enough to drive away people with good morals.

Which, of course, it won't!
The reality of his life will be glossed over and the Blond Beast's post provides an accurate insight into how it will go!!

I'm with Blond Beast, I could care less about Mike Tyson's glorified and celebrated regurgitation of his depraved debauchery and mockery of the American Justice system.

[Clegg]

I really like the Tyson film with Michael Jai White, he played the part well and it covered all the key events of Tyson's life up to that point

[Combat Talk Radio]

I think we’ve heard it all already. Unless we are going to see all the partying, girls, home life that there is no video of. The alleged ****? Prison? What do we expect to see really? I think it’s just a vanity project from Foxx also a reason to take sum gear and get in shape. I mean are we expected to see him play a 20yr old Tyson? If the scenes are full of personal stories from Mike himself that are new to us that could be cool. But if it’s just Foxx copying all the famous clips we have all seen a million times I couldn’t care less.

I want to know who will play Robin Givens.

If it's not Megan Good, I'm not interested.