Mariah Carey ready to fight for role in movie
Reports that Mariah Carey will be playing a boxing manager in her next big-screen project, "The Sweet Science", turn out to be premature - and wrong, according to the film's producer, Anthony Esposito. The multiple Grammy-winning singer will instead be playing a boxer herself - one who steps into the ring with real-life lady boxing champion Laila Ali, daughter of none other than boxing legend Muhammad Ali.
"Mariah was really keen on playing this role. At first, she was going to play the part of the boxing manager, Gloria, but she insisted on playing the boxer. She's been taking boxing lessons as part of her training," says Esposito, who is producing the film with Andrea Kreuzhage, through their Leading Pictures production company.
Esposito also produced the Mariah Carey/Mira Sorvino starrer "Wisegirls", which ended up going from Sundance Festival kudos to cable television release. Mariah will also record a soundtrack for the "Sweet Science" romantic comedy, which will begin production in New Jersey and Canada on Nov. 10, once she finishes her current "Charmbracelet" tour.
Real estate tycoon Donald Trump has also attached himself to "The Sweet Science". Declares Esposito, "Donald is investing in the film, and he'll make a cameo as well." And so much for the view that remarkably resilient Mariah's film career was dead on the arrival of her 2001 debut, the critically panned box-office bomb "Glitter". (U-Daily) Many thanks to Mariah-Carey.org.
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