Khris Davis took the hits to become ‘Big George Foreman’
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By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer
Khris Davis did not know who he was auditioning for when he first got the lines for an untitled project about a boxer. They didn’t even tell him it was based on a true story at first. But he liked that there was a character arc – it’s more than actors often get early in auditions. Somewhere along the way he began to piece it together. And then it clicked: Oh, this is George Foreman, he thought. The film, “Big George Foreman,” is now playing in theaters nationwide. Director George Tillman Jr. said, “I wanted to tell a story of things that you don’t know.”