50 Cent weighed 160 pounds when he portrayed the cancer-stricken Deon. The rapper went through a nine-week liquid diet and went on a treadmill three hours a day, losing his entire muscular frame. He has gained more than 40 pounds back after filming wrapped.
The college football team in the movie used jerseys from the Grand Rapids Community College football team. The bookstore scene also used the GRCC bookstore and included sweatshirts on the rack that included the Grand Rapids Community College name and "GRCC" lamp post banners throughout the movie.
Curtis Jackson did not write a single line of dialogue or any of the screenplay but took full writing credit along with Brian Miller. Mario Van Peebles rewrote the script in it's entirety while working with Miller and later filed a WGA claim against the production.
Jackson notoriously had to be taught how to act during the production and how to actually read a script.
Ray Liotta have only appeared 3 scenes in this movie, even though his picture is seen in the front cover of the movie and most of his scenes are with 50 Cent.
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