‘Invictus’ star Morgan Freeman says he’s no rugby fan
February 1st, 2010 - 3:09 pm ICT by ANILondon, Feb 1 (ANI): Hollywood star Morgan Freeman insists he’s not a rugby fan, despite starring in a new film based on the sport.
The 72-year-old Oscar winner starred as Nelson Mandela in Invictus, a film about the sport’s famous 1995 World Cup in South Africa, directed by Clint Eastwood.
Freeman says he still knows ‘little to nothing’ about rugby.
‘I wasn’t a rugby fan - I didn’t know beans about rugby. I still know little to nothing about rugby,” the Telegraph quoted him as saying.
‘At home sometimes when you get down to the World Series or National Football League play-offs or the NBA play-offs, I might watch. But I’m not an avid sports fan at all,’ he added.
He also insists that the movie did not concentrate on rugby.
‘It isn’t based on rugby. Everyone keeps saying it’s based on rugby - it incorporates rugby, but it’s based on Mandela,’ he said.
The actor also joked that he did not like working with his co-star Matt Damon - who plays South Africa’s World Cup-winning captain Francois Pienaar.
‘We don’t get on all that good. He’s got a big head, he thinks he’s good-looking and all that. We didn’t get on all that well at all as a matter of fact,’ he said.
Damon said it was an honour to be starring opposite Freeman - who was picked by Mandela himself to play him. (ANI)
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