Usher is not only releasing new music this year, he’s also promoting his role in the Roberto Duran biopic “Hands of Stone.”
In the film, the R&B/pop veteran plays boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, which was one of Duran’s biggest rivals. Usher recently chatted with WPGC 95.5 in Washington, D.C. to share details about his big role.
On physical training for role…
“It was intense,” he said. “I push my body when I’m working on performing I do a two-hour set and I’m never still — I’m dancing, I’m singing, I’m moving around. I never stand still on the stage, so to be able to be in the ring with an opponent in front of you who’s trying to tear your head off, you have to figure out how to move. Sugar Ray wasn’t a boxer who stood still… He moved all around that ring; you never could catch him in a corner. His defense was his ability to move and shock you.
“To analyze, train with him, really work on myself as a boxer, I didn’t want to act it — I wanted to feel like a boxer, so I spent days and nights — months — preparing with a trainer in Atlanta.”
On sex scene in the film…
“I don’t think I’ve ever had a sex scene, but in this movie I do,” he said. “That’s the one thing nobody is talking about. Everybody said, ‘Oh man, I heard you’re doing a film where you’re boxing’… wait ’til you see the sex scene.”
“Hands of Stone,” the film, is expected to release by the end this year or early 2015.
In other news, Usher’s new single “Good Kisser” is available now. Be on the look out for his new album coming later this fall.
(Source: Radio)
