50 Cent Was Really Dedicated To Looking Sick For Upcoming Film

There are a lot of musicians who attempt to hop over the fence and become an actor, however, only there are a only a few talented stars who earn the critical acclaim. (We all know Britney Spears wasn’t getting an Oscar for Crossroads.) Some may have had aspirations to be in the film industry but just happened to get a good deal in the music realm, so it’s a bit hard to see them as believable characters in films sometimes.

However, musicians are passionate and when they land a gig, they usually give it their all no matter what the outcome may be. It’s all about the performance. It’s the same way in acting and rapper 50 Cent has definitely given everything he had to fit a role for his straight-to-DVD film, Things Fall Apart.

50 is known for his brawny muscles much like he has in our main photo above. He hardly wears a shirt and all his fans can see every tattoo on his upper body. However for his role in Things Fall Part, he told US Weekly that he “has to lose 54 pounds” in order to play a high school football player who gets cancer. With the likes of Renee Zellweger out there (and remember how skinny Tom Hanks got for Castaway?), we should be used to actors and their fluctuating weight. Yet, if you look to the right at this photo and at the bottom of this article, 50′s weight loss is shocking and  concerning.

It looks like more than 54 pounds, and we suppose it makes sense since the loss of 10 pounds make a difference on anyone. We can imagine for someone as strong-looking as 50 that it wasn’t easy to drastically lose all that muscle weight either. He continued to explain, “I was starving” as he went on with details of going on a liquid diet and walking on the treadmill for three hours a day for nine weeks.

The film also stars Lynn Whitfield, Steve Eastin and comedian Mike Epps. We’re just hoping that all this hard work 50 had to put in to look emaciated pays off. It would really suck to see the movie (which we would like to emphasize again – going straight to DVD next year) where 50 still isn’t believable with the dramatic weight loss.

What are you thinking about 50 and his weight loss?