Mr. T turns 70: from fighting Rocky to Brigade A, beating cancer and filming an ad in Argentina
If asked what his real name is, Mr T says: “My first name is ‘Mr’, my middle name is ‘dot’, my last name is ‘T'”. And you could even say that “As an artist, I am more versatile than most realize. I can play Hamlet, even if I’m more like King Kong. “
Laurence Tureaud, better known as Mr T and Mario Baracus, in the series Brigade A, will be 70 now. He was a bodyguard, they offered him $ 75,000 to kill someone, he was a wrestling champion, he won his personal fight against cancer and he disappeared from the media for five years.
Why?
There is an explanation as to why Mr. T his 40 pounds in gold chains. And even her Mohican haircut. Clarin Archive Photos
Fans often nicknamed his sergeant BA Baracus, from Brigade A, as a synonym of “Bad Ass” or “Bad Attitude”. Probably because of that translation of Mal Attitud perhaps, in one of those, who knows, in Latin America his first name was replaced by those initials, for Ma river of Baracus…
But we’ll find out, and why he wore gold chains, and his Mohican haircut.
In “Rocky III” -the one from “Eye of the Tiger” -, Sylvester Stallone tries to hit with his right hand.
His 106 kilos and his 1.79 meters will never be noticed, and long before him Sylvester Stallone saw him and took him as Rocky Balboa’s opponent – he’s the boxer Clubber Lang in Rocky III (1982), yung may kanta Tiger’s eyeOscar nominee, he lived as a bodyguard of prostitutes or celebrities, such as Michael Jackson, Muhammad AliSteve McQueen, Joe Frazier or Diana Ross.
“I did everything except guarantee people’s lives,” he said, “but (I told them) I guarantee you that I will give my life to protect your life.”
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