9 Actors Who Sacrificed Everything For Terrible Movies
6. 50 Cent Goes Full Method - All Things Fall Apart (2011)
Poor 50 Cent - he tried so hard. In the drama All Things Fall Apart, the rapper portrayed an American football player called Deon, who must confront his cancer diagnosis at the height of his career.
For the role, 50 Cent lost nearly 60 pounds, dropping from his usual 210 pounds to only 155 in just nine weeks. On top of that, he also had some of his tattoos removed, to save production covering them up.
Though the rapper meant well, All Things Fall Apart kind of... well, fell apart. It's a melodramatic, unoriginal Oscar-baiter with emotional revelations which fall unfortunately flat throughout the movie.
Worse than that, though, is the fact that the film ended up being released straight-to-DVD, meaning 50 Cent put in all that work and gave a semi-decent performance in the process for barely anyone to see it, and for those who did to openly pan it.
The heart was there, but the film was not.