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Forest Whitaker Talks About Being Jekyll To 50 Cent's Hyde
Forest Whitaker Talks About Being Jekyll To 50 Cent's Hyde
'It's a father-son kind of relationship,' actor says of roles that would pair him with the MC. By Larry Carroll, with reporting by Ryan J. Downey Forrest Whitaker Photo: MTV News BEVERLY HILLS, California — In Robert Louis Stevenson's classic 1886 novella ...
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Oh No: Forest Whitaker Says He Might Not Appear In Abel Ferrara's 'Jekyll And Hyde' Remake With 50 Cent
:: The Playlist :: — ... Well, Forest Whitaker himself just fanned the flames of hope yesterday, so it sounds like this horrifically absurd classic-to-be is still on track. "Yeah, [the screenwriters] just turned in a new draft," Whitaker told MTV, saying the project is still in development. However the Academy-Award winning actor is not sure if he's still going to participate in the project or not. "We're still figuring out what we're going to do, if I am going to be doing that or not," he cautioned. "If I end up doing it, I would be playing Jekyll and he would be playing Hyde." ...

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