LOS ANGELES: Actor Jamie Foxx has said he is moving ahead with a biopic on the life of boxer Mike Tyson.
Foxx told a producer during an Instagram Live interview that the film referred to ‘Finding Mike’ will more forward. He also shared some selfies of himself bulked up in preparation for the role.
“Doing biographies is a tough thing. Sometimes it takes 20 years to get it done but we officially got the real ball rolling,” Foxx said. “I can’t wait to show people what it is.”
The idea dates back to at least 2014 when Tyson said in an interview that Foxx was hoping to portray him in a biopic. Foxx reiterated that it’s remains no secret that he has been pursuing the project for a while.
“People always ask me when is it going to happen?… things have finally lined up… A few months ago we started the journey… The first but biggest task is to transform the body,” Foxx said on Instagram. “We have a ways to go… But I am prepared to get there!”
The hazy photos of Foxx in front of a mirror show him shirtless and flaunting his arms as he began a workout regimen a few months back.
The 52-year-old is a few years away from the boxer’s glory days and even back in 2014, Tyson said filmmakers would be looking to digitally de-age Foxx to look make him look younger.
Foxx recently shared a convincing clip of him doing impressions, including one of Tyson, as well as other like a young and old Dave Chappelle, Jay-Z, Sammy Davis Jr and Kermit the Frog, in which he further teased that he has been working on the biopic.
Foxx most recently starred in ‘Just Mercy’ and lend his voice to the Pixar movie ‘Soul’. He is best know for winning the Oscar winner for the biopic ‘Ray’.
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