Mike Tyson warns Jamie Foxx, says playing him in a biopic 'is not going to be pretty'

After a number of setbacks, Acemy Award winner Jamie Foxx confirmed last week that production for untitled Mike Tyson biopic is well underway and he has bulked up massively to match physique of boxing legend. Jamie Foxx me major anuncement while talking to Mark Birnbaum during an Instagram Live session. "It's a definitive yes," Foxx told Birnbaum. "Doing biographies is a tough thing. Sometimes it takes 20 years to get m done, but we officially got real ball rolling," he ded.

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Mike Tyson movie: Mike Tyson warns Jamie Foxx

While speaking about his upcoming biopic, Mike Tyson told Charlie Mack that he has full confidence that Jamie Foxx will deliver ar Oscar-winning performance. However, Mike Tyson said that he’s going to tell everything about his life to Jamie Foxx which actor ‘has to process’. "I'm very grateful. I'm very excited about it. I'm gonna sit down and tell him truth and he's gonna have to learn to process that,” said Mike Tyson.

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Acemy Award winner said that he met Mike Tyson for first time when he was a 22-year-old and used to do stand-up comedy. He said he and Mike Tyson “ed” and two soon became friends. “I started hanging out with Mike Tyson so I got to see Mike in two different ways, two different lives,” said Jamie Foxx. He revealed that he saw Mike Tyson reach  top and deal with a lot of controversy. “So what I'm excited about movie is to show those moments."

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Mike Tyson movie: Jamie Foxx reveals his workout routine

Jamie Foxx said that he’s currently doing 60 pull-ups, 60 dips and 100 press-ups to match Mike Tyson’s physique before joking, "I ain't got legs, I ain't got calf muscles.” Jamie Foxx revealed that he aims to weigh around 90 kgs when filming starts, to reflect shape of a young Tyson before gaining weight to play older version of boxer.

"I guarantee you, people will run up on me in street and ask for an autograph and think that I'm Mike," Jamie Foxx said.

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