I was going to everybody and saying, 'You've got to stop this,' and nobody was saying no, so I just lost my head.
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For instance, in the original script, 50 Cent's character, Marcus, kills four rival drug dealers on a corner. I was asking the studio, 'Is this true' They said they don't know. 50 said no, ... So I said, one, if he did kill somebody, why advertise it, and two, if he didn't, why glorify it So I took it in a different direction.
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The first few days, I worked about seven hours on each scene with him. He just kept wanting to do it better. He never went to self-pity or said, 'What do you want from me' even though it was difficult. I knew he had resilience and self-confidence. He worked very hard, never complained, never was in a bad humor.
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