Translated by virginiamanis:
The reporter
asks: "Have you seen "Raging
bull" to
get prepared for the role in CM?"
R.C.:"As we haven´t begun to shoot yet, we haven´t
seen it, but I suppose we shall see it . Actually, Cinderella man is
more
than the story of a boxer, because it is about Jim Braddock, his wife
and children, a northamerican family during the Great depression. The
box theme is something secondary. Braddock becomes an inspiration for
the people whose lives have been affected negatively by the Great Depression
and the economic catastrophe. The people who lived in the streets considered
Braddock as one of them, he had been deprived of his boxing licence
because he had refused to take part in scandals. He was a technician
on the ring
and due to this he went from being paid a hundred dollars every match
to being paid two dollars every day loading sacks in the port. His
life changed suddenly. He lost his home, car, and he even had to send
his
children to live with his parents so that they could eat. From this
position, he became again the centre of the public opinion, when he
ended up on
his knees asking for a new opportunity to box. So they allowed him
to fight against a boxer who was considered unbeatable. Braddock beat
him in the third round and three matches later he became the new world
heavyweight
champion. And he got all this when there was a change in his internal
attitude, when Braddock realised "what boxing meant to him and what
boxing could do for his family."
He also
says that he needs more "muscles" to
play the character, so he is intensifying his preparation for the role.
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