“He fell to his knees”: behind-the-scenes on Will Smith’s brutal ‘Ali’ fitness training
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nme.comAli has revealed that he once worked the actor so hard that he “fell to his knees and I made him write Muhammad Ali’s name in the snow.”Darrell Foster, who trained former boxing champion Sugar Ray Leonard for 18 years and has coached a host of Hollywood stars including Woody Harrelson, Antonio Banderas and Eddie Murphy, has spoken to NME about the tough regime Smith endured in order to convincingly portray the iconic fighter.“I took Will up to 10,000 feet in Aspen, Colorado so he could understand what it felt like to experience oxygen deprivation in order to correlate it to how Ali felt in the 14th round with [former world heavyweight champion] Joe Frazier and how it feels to actually not be able to breathe and you’ve still gotta keep.
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