50 Cent in shock weight loss for film role

(Left) 50 before the weight loss. (Right) 50 during filming

Later this year, hip-hop mogul, 50 Cent, will be hitting the big screens with the release of the eagerly awaited blockbuster ‘Things Fall Apart’. However, Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson will hardly be recognisable as his gruelling diet saw him shed almost four stone for the role.

In the movie, 50 plays a US football star who is at the top of his game before being diagnosed with cancer. The usually muscular rapper achieved the drastic weight loss in only nine weeks, surviving on a liquid-only diet combined with daily walks on the treadmill lasting three hours.

Although ‘Things Fall Apart’ has not had an official UK release date set as of yet, it will be some time in 2011 and is expected to take the UK box office by storm. All I can say is rather you than me 50 but I take my hat off to you. 

Click below to see the trailer for the film 'Things Fall Apart':