Gerard Butler on filming with 50 Cent
Don’t miss it! The actor and musician returns to the big screen with the action film, his 24th movie
Actor Gerard Butler had fun shooting with 50 Cent. “50 Cent is a very bubbly kind of a person. He’s such a funny and a sweet guy and is always smiling,” Butler said in a statement. On 50 Cent’s role, Butler said: “With his character Enson, he takes the gravitas that he has and lets it shine and when he speaks, it’s crazy.” 50 Cent arrives with his son, Sire, for the premiere of
in LA. ote to action movie directors: you probably don’t need to tell Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson — juvenile crack dealer turned multi-millionaire rapper and movie star how to take a bullet.
It was a liberty firsttime filmmaker Christian Gudegast felt comfortable taking, however, during the filming of Jackson’s latest movie, gritty heist thriller Den of Thieves.
“There’s a point where I get shot in the film, and I did it and Christian was like, ‘No, you didn’t do that the right way,” Jackson recalled at a press event for the movie in Beverly Hills. ‘Den of Thieves’ is out now in the UAE. Clockwise from bottom left: Kaiwi Lyman, Mo McRae, Christian Gudecast, 50 Cent, Gerard Butler, Pablo Schreiber and O’Shea Jackson Jr.
“I was like, ‘Trust me, I know what I’m doing.’”
Jackson, raised on the mean streets of Queens by his grandmother after his drug dealer mother’s death in a mystery fire, knows all about how it feels to get shot, of course. On a May evening 18 years ago, he was hit nine times at close range by a drive-by gunman wielding a semi-automatic pistol in the South Jamaica area of Queens.
“After I got shot nine times at close range and