I’m enough for myself, but Khris brought acting to life. “I didn’t want anyone trying to imitate me. Today Foreman is a hall of fame boxer with 76 wins, 68 by knockout, and just five losses, a multimillionaire, a husband of 25 years, a doting father and grandfather, and, most importantly, a man of God.įoreman has high praise for Davis’s portrayal of him.
I had nothing, not even hope, let alone faith yet somehow, I survived, mainly on my mother’s love.” I looked at that part and cried because then you realize what has really become of your life. “But you realize they left them there because they didn’t work. “As a youth, coming into these old houses my mom would rent and people would abandon refrigerators and stove and you hope they’d work,” he said. Jones in the early teens, was particularly hard for Foreman. That’s not easy,” he said.īecause of the memories it brought up, watching his younger self, portrayed by Kei Edwards in childhood and Austin D. You get a big home and you’ve got big fences and big gates to protect your life. “You spend your whole life hiding your life. “The emotional transformation was a bit easier to map out for me because, really, it’s storytelling,” explains Davis, who recently shared the Broadway stage with Wendell Pierce in Death of a Salesman.īut he admits he had reservations.
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“My coach Darrell Foster didn’t want to treat it like we were training for a movie he wanted to treat it like he does for all the people he works with, as if it were a fight camp, as if I were training for a heavyweight title fight.
You think you’re in shape and then you start doing some boxing training,’” he said. “I grew up playing sports, but fight training is very different. Stepping into Foreman’s shoes was physically grueling, Davis admits. Forest Whitaker as Doc Broadus and Khris Davis as George Foreman in ‘Big George Foreman’. The film is co-written and directed by George Tillman Jr., best known for Soul Food and Men of Honor. Highlights include his 1968 Olympics win, Muhammad Ali defeating him in the Rumble in the Jungle match in Zaire in 1974, his spiritual awakening in the late 1970s, and, of course, his huge boxing comeback in 1994 to become the heavyweight champion once again at age 45.įamiliar faces helping Davis tell the story include Oscar winner Forest Whitaker as Foreman’s life-changing mentor and trainer Charles “Doc” Broadus, The Wire, The Chi, and Will Trent star Sonja Sohn as his mother Nancy, and Harlem’s Sullivan Jones as one-time rival and later great friend Muhammad Ali. Davis plays Foreman throughout his adult life, from young to old, touching on many pivotal moments.
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