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Why didn't they cast Ving Rhames as tookie?


I haven't seen this movie yet but skinny little jamie foxx seems all wrong. Tookie was 5'10" and weighed around 270. In his book he said he was able to do a seated, behind the neck press of 375 pounds!!!

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Ving Rhames is not a bad choice prison, but Jamie was real good in this role. And Jamie is no where near skinny. He is around 5`9 but weighs close to 200 pounds. He is just not as big as Tookie. Which was a big mofo! lol.

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Hopefully because Ving Rhames has enough common sense not to glorify someone like Williams.



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