Hey folks, Harry here... I have to give kudos in Will Smith's direction... the dedication and will power he has used to transform his entire body type in order to play Ali... well it's amazing. To lose or gain weight... that's tough enough, but to gain weight and to transform it into pure muscle... to go from Lanky to BUILT... that's an amazing transformation... And if Will can do it, so can I... why... why, I'll start to work on push-ups right now!
Hey Harry, I just wanted to let you know that on my way home from work yesterday here in Chicago, I managed to walk by the set where they have been filming ALI for the last few days. I know that they have been here in Chicago for quite some time because Big Willie Style and entourage have been spotted all over the place. Well, just as I was walking by the mob outside of the set, Will Smith walked out.
But I didn't recognize him. Harry, he WAS Muhammed Ali. He has easily put on about 50 pounds of muscle, the dude looked jacked. He had the same hairdo, and had the look down of Ali, even though there was no obvious make-up or anything. He seemed in a really low key mood, and hurried to his car. Not in a rude way or anything, but maybe he was still in character, cause he damn sure had the whole Ali demeanor down. He only stayed long enough to get into his chaufferred Expedition (w/o Jada Pinkett, who was not on set that day) and then took off. Jamie Foxx, playing Drew "Bundini" Brown, was hanging out inside, and stuck around playing up to the growing crowd outside the set. He was pimped out in some 1950's suit and fedora, and acting just as foolish as he always does. He was a good sport with everyone, and took pictures and signed autographs and everything. Aside from that, there was no sightings of any other stars involved.
Hope this is useful - Will looked HUGE and I think he will really shock everyone when this movie comes out.
Later!
MC-GOP
