Usher is set to channel Sugar Ray Leonard for a big screen biopic that’s expected to come out next year, Billboard reports. Called “Hands of Stone,” it co-stars Gael Garcia Bernal and Robert De Niro.
The role is requiring Usher to lose some weight, dropping down from 176 pounds to welterweight status at 161 pounds. In order to pull it off, the R&B crooner has been shunning carbs and sugar and consuming Kale salad, steamed spinach and lean, organic proteins instead. After all, the singer says, if you want to win, you’ve got to be focused — whether that’s in the ring or the studio.
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”It’s all about striving for greatness and offering the best I have,” he tells the magazine. “It’s no different than a boxer: Standing in front of the person trying to tear his head off, he has to give his all to make it out of that ring.”
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Usher will release his seventh studio album, “Looking 4 Myself,” on June 12.
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