If you’ve been looking for 50 Cent In Da Club or anywhere else except for in the gym or on the shitter lately, you’ve probably been out of luck; Fiddy had to drop OVER 50 lbs to play a football player with cancer in the upcoming movie Things Fall Apart (which would be way cooler if it was based on the Chinua Achebe book; 50 Cent as Okonkwo would be the REAL). And as you can see in the pics, the rapper turned actor, who now goes by his real name, Curtis Jackson, has also begun the process of having his tattoos removed via laser removal treatments:
“[Laser removal] cuts down on the amount of time I have to spend in makeup covering them up,” says the actor. Jackson has roles in several upcoming films, including Twelve with Chace Crawford (out later this year), 2011′s Things Fall Apart, and The Dance, a boxing film costarring Nicolas Cage. Last November, Jackson made it clear that he values sleep over body art, saying that covering the ink in the makeup chair often required him to show up on set four hours before the other actors. And even when the ink is covered up, some rigorous roles won’t withstand the industry’s heaviest makeup. Jackson said of his role in The Dance,which is now in development, “When you’re a fighter, you’re sweating, [and] with a whole bunch of make-up on and stuff like that, it doesn’t look real to me.”
