Michael Gerard Tyson, the well-known face in the world of professional boxing has also played some commendable roles in the world of cinema. Mike Tyson appeared in works like ‘The Hangover’, ‘Law and Order’ and many more.
However, did you know that the boxer cum actor has a secret desire to play this particular Shakespeare character? Although Tyson has starred in the Broadway project ‘Undisputed Truth’, he has expressed his wish to star in a Shakespeare play as well. Let’s take a look at which character he wants to play.
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Mike Tyson And The Shakespeare Character He Wants To Play
‘The Baddest Man on the Planet’ aka Mike Tyson has been an undisputed champion in heavyweight lifting. After making a name for himself in weightlifting, Tyson also set his sights on acting. In one conversation with the Daily Mirror, ‘Iron Mike’ revealed his wish to play a certain Shakespeare character.
“I absolutely want to do Shakespeare,” Tyson said. “I was just talking to somebody, and he quoted, ‘First thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers’, and we laughed. And then he said that came from Shakespeare’s Henry VI, all the lawyers. Shakespeare said that.”
Mike Tyson continued to say, “He had such powerful insights. I don’t know which exact role I would want, but I know it would be challenging to do Othello. I couldn’t do a performance on the stage as it would be mortifying, and the camera filming a show would be easier for me.”
While speaking about playing Othello, Tyson also said, “The role is very complex and would need a lot of studying. I would need to work on my linguistics. Wouldn’t Shakespeare be awesome? That black guy… could you imagine me in Othello.”
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Mike Tyson Talks About Boxing And Acting
Although it seems that there can never be any similarities between boxing and acting, Mike Tyson thinks differently. The fierce sportsman thinks that he was very much playing a role as a boxer as well since he had to entertain the audience amidst his performance.
“It has a great deal of that involved because you are in a role,” Tyson told The Talk. “For every particular role you have to be disciplined and, in that particular time, you have to be that killer. You have to have the discipline to pull it off.” So the killer boxer was as much part of his great boxing skills as it was part of his acting skills.
Tyson also feels that boxing got its relevance only after the many entertaining characters that joined the field. Before that, the audience was not that into the sports. Tyson said, “Every part of entertainment needs a character. If you don’t have a character…being skillful; that’s nice too, but it’s more than being very skillful. You have to have a personality and boxing doesn’t have a personality.”
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