Playing boxing great George Foreman is more than just a breakthrough role for actor Khris Davis. Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World was also the answer to a question the actor had always asked. “Even before knowing this film was happening,” Davis says, “I wondered, ‘who is George Foreman?’”
For many, the answer had simply been ‘the man behind the George Foreman Grill’ or ‘the boxer Muhammad Ali beat in the epic Rumble in the Jungle fight in Zaire in Africa.’ Some may have heard of his three previous marriages, the ten kids he fathered and the two he adopted. His five sons and two grandsons even bear his full name, George Edward Foreman.
