5 Things About Michael Clarke Duncan You May Not Know
Hollywood sits in shock today as one of its own passes suddenly after indications were he was recovering.
Michael Clarke Duncan is gone too soon, at the age of 54, and many will remember him with love and affection.
SoJO salutes this Oscar nominee, and presents some things about him that you may not have known.
Duncan was recovering from a massive heart attack he suffered about two months ago. He was out of the ICU just a few weeks ago, but still in the hospital recovering.
Tom Hanks has led a parade of Hollywood celebrities taking to Twitter in the last 12 hours or so to share their feelings for the endearing big man. "He was the treasure we all discovered on the set of The Green Mile," Hanks tweeted of Michael's Oscar Nominated performance. "He was magic. He was a big love of man and his passing leaves us stunned."
Hanks leads a parade from Tinseltown to tweet their love for Duncan - ranging from "The Rock" Dwayne Johnson ("I will miss you my brother"), to former Idol runner-up Katherine McPhee ("I loved you! The Green Mile was epic"), to Steve Harvey ("I will miss my friend. What an incredible soldier in God's Plan."), and Timbaland (just to name only a few of the hundreds of tweets that have happened).
Looking at the life and career of Michael Clarke Duncan, it seemed that good things were about to happen again for him. Here are 5 things you may not have know about Duncan:
1) He was a bodyguard early in his career
At 6'5", weighing around 310-320 pounds, it should not shock you too much that Duncan was hired to work for likes of Jamie Foxx and Will Smith. He was also hired as a bodyguard for "The Notorious B.I.G". Duncan was suppose to work for "Biggie" (Christopher Wallace) the night he was murdered in L.A. in 1997 but swapped the assignment with a friend and quit security within hours of Wallace’s death.
Ironically when Duncan took on acting, he was getting small roles playing mainly personal bodyguards.