Jamie Foxx Transforms into Mike Tyson for Upcoming Biopic: 'The First but Biggest Task'
"A few months ago we started the journey … The first but biggest task is to transform the body ... with a regiment of pull-ups dips and push-ups we are off to a pretty good start," wrote Foxx, 52. "We have a ways to go but God willing."
"Yesterday on my good friends @markbirnbaum show I shared these early pics of the process ... like I said we have a ways to go … But I am prepared to get there!" he added.
Many celebrities left supportive comments. Justin Timberlake left a strong-arm and firecracker emoji, and former professional boxer Oscar De La Hoya wrote, "There couldn't have been a better actor/person to play the legend. Congratulations my man."
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Foxx confirmed the movie was in the works while on Mark Birnbaum's Instagram Live series Catching Up on Wednesday, giving a "definitive yes" and saying, "Look, doing biographies is a tough thing. Sometimes it takes 20 years to get them done. But we officially got the real ball rolling."
The Oscar-winning star said he was eager to show audiences the "different lives" of the iconic boxer. "We want to show everybody evolves," he said. "I think when we lay the layer of Mike Tyson in this story, I think everybody from young and old will be able to understand this man's journey."
Foxx also touched on how he'd approach playing Tyson, saying, "And then just the technology of how I'm gonna look, I guarantee you people will run up on me in the street, and ask for autographs, and think that I'm Mike."
He continued, "Every other day, I do 60 pull-ups, we do 60 dips, we do 100 push-ups. I ain't got no calf muscles, so we might have to get some prosthetics for that."
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