Mike Tyson says he\u2019s met with Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx about collaborating on a possible biopic on his life.\n\u2018\u2019Me and Jamie Foxx have been talking and he\u2019s willing to take that role and portray me as Mike Tyson, doing my life story,\u2019\u2019 the former heavyweight boxing champion said Friday during a conference call to promote an upcoming Toronto date for his one-man show, \u2018\u2019Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth.\u2019\u2019 \u2018\u2019I think he\u2019s splendid because he\u2019s really up to par. I think he would do a magnificent job.\u2019\u2019
\nFurther brainstorming of the project will \u2018\u2019happen very shortly,\u2019\u2019 he added.
\n\u2018\u2019I saw him the other night and we discussed it,\u2019\u2019 Tyson said. \u2018\u2019He doesn\u2019t have the physicality but he will. He\u2019s able to … get bulky, so he\u2019s capable of doing it in the future.\u2019\u2019
\nTyson will bring his solo production to Toronto\u2019s Air Canada Centre on September 10. Tickets go on sale July 31.
\nIn the 90-minute show, he gives an unvarnished account of the highs and lows of his life – from his troubled upbringing in Brooklyn and famed boxing career, to his time in prison and addiction issues.
\nOscar-nominated filmmaker Spike Lee directed the stage show, which has already run on Broadway and across the United States. He also turned it into an HBO special that aired last November.
\nTyson\u2019s wife, Kiki, wrote the script that includes room for ad-libbing.
\n\u2018\u2019I don\u2019t do shows for any kind of therapy,\u2019\u2019 said Tyson. \u2018\u2019I do it because I enjoy doing it, and I do it because it\u2019s art. It\u2019s changed me a great deal because I can\u2019t walk 10 minutes without anybody asking me when the next show is going to appear.\u2019\u2019
\nNow 48 and retired from the ring, Tyson insisted he\u2019s not the same intimidating guy he was when he was the youngest heavyweight boxing champion of the world: \u2018\u2019Not even a little bit. That guy doesn\u2019t even exist no more.\u2019\u2019
\nIndeed, the Tyson of today is sober and seemingly mellow, with self-deprecating bits in the \u2018\u2019Hangover\u2019\u2019 movies and a new role as boxing promoter with Iron Mike Productions. Besides his stage show, he\u2019s also opened up about his life in the 2008 documentary \u2018\u2019Tyson\u2019\u2019 and in an autobiography published last November.
\n\u2018\u2019Right now, I\u2019m just living life day by day – black, broke and ugly,\u2019\u2019 laughed Tyson, who declared bankruptcy in 2003 and has a tattoo on his face. \u2018\u2019I\u2019m just trying to survive, you know?\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"