RICHARD BLACKWOOD
REJECTS MOVIE
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[ September 2nd 2000 ]
TV star
Richard Blackwood tells Popcorn that he's been
turning down some high-profile movie offers to
concentrate on his music career. "I've had two
movie offers," the Channel 4 star reveals, "I
had 'The Mummy 2' and I had 'Tomb Raider'. It
was really weird, because I always wanted to do
movies - and I still do - but it's my music [career]
that's stopping me." Blackwood claims that the
producers wanted him to play Lara Croft's assistant
in 'Tomb Raider', and it's this part in particular
that he regrets having to reject . "I would've
had a big part - [the character] is a mad scientist
- and you could just make it really funny. I was
thinking, 'That's the one', and I couldn't do
it because of my music commitments."
Instead,
Blackwood is concentrating on his music career
(a new single, '1,2,3,4, Get With The Wicked',
is out on Monday) and hoping to eventually go
straight to Hollywood to star in a movie with
the man he's most frequently compared to - Will
Smith. "I'd love to be in 'Bad Boys 2'," Blackwood
grins, "but it depends on whether I'm discovered
[in America] by that time. "The good thing is
I know Will Smith's making the Muhammad Ali film,
which means give it a year and hopefully by that
time I'll be fighting my way up there. So when
it's time for 'Bad Boys 2' they'll be like, 'We
want him as well.'"
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