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Apparently, rapper 50 Cent will do anything to get a movie role as he has been spotted with a skinnier appearance. Answering the questions put up by 50's fans about the hip-hop artist's weight loss, MTV revealed that the rapper has been shedding his bulky feature to sport a regular shape for a role in an indie drama "Microwave Park".

The information reportedly came from the rapper whose real name is Curtis James Jackson III himself on Tuesday, April 15. Now weighing at about 185 pounds, 50 let out that he has to tone down his beefy-look because he has been set to play a New Orleans, Louisiana police officer in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Further, he also confessed that to do justice to the character he has to grow his hair out into an Afro.

To join in the production of the Charles Winkler-directed film, the hitmaker of "The Massacre" will fly to New Orleans on May 8. There, he is going to join the other cast that include Val Kilmer and Sharon Stone. Meanwhile, related to the independently financed film, it follows the story of a police officer who discovers that his partner's death was not caused by Hurricane Katrina but rather due to a murderer. His investigation of the case brings him and his new partner into a hidden criminal world.