Rapper 50 Cent was also set to portray a severely ill patient for the movie Things Fall Apart. In his case, it was cancer. The actor supposedly took up the challenge as a tribute to a friend who died of the disease.
For his part, the actor lost a massive fifty pounds off his buffed-up frame for the second leg of the movie. He told Huffington Post that it was hard for him to lose definition even when he lost weight because he had so much muscle to begin with.
The rapper dropped from a healthy 214 lbs to 160 lbs in nine weeks by switching to a liquid diet and running on a treadmill three hours a day. Before that, the rapper had gotten down to 157 pounds when he was shot in the jaw back in the year 2000.
