If you followed Michigan State Spartans basketball last year, you might have noticed a certain Shakespearean clip playing over and over during telecasts. Whenever Delvon Roe was mentioned, they cut away to a shot of him acting in “As You Like it” at MSU. In that production, Roe played Charles the Wrestler. In this movie, he’ll play a former football player named Issac.
Roe will get paid $20,000 for the gig, as he beat out the big dude from “The Blind Side,” the only other person to audition for the role.
Before his knee injuries began during his senior year in high school, Roe was considered a lock to become McDonald’s All-American. There were thoughts of him becoming a one-and-done; doing his college basketball at either State or UNC.
Well, the knee problems have only gotten worse and as Roe enters his senior year in East Lansing, it’s looking like he may have more of a future in Hollywood, not “the league.”
From CBS Sports:
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