50 Cent to play Stallone’s sidekick

American star Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson has revealed he will play Sylvester Stallone’s sidekick in new action blockbuster The Tomb.

It’s cool, it’s a really cool project

It was recently announced the rapper-turned-actor will star alongside Hollywood heavyweights Mr Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film, which will see Sly play a security expert forced to escape from one of his own jails after being wrongly imprisoned.

Mr Jackson, 36, revealed he will play Mr Stallone’s right-hand man, a reformed cyber criminal, in the 2013 blockbuster and is relishing the chance to work alongside the veteran after passing up a role in The Expendables in 2010.

He said: “I’m Mr Stallone’s assistant. It’s going to be cool.

“I play a computer expert who has been incarcerated in the past for cybercrimes, and I work for Stallone’s character now as he goes in and out of the different systems. It’s cool, it’s a really cool project.

“When I read it for the first time I was really excited about it.”

Mr Jackson added: “I was actually going to be a part of The Expendables. I would have played Terry Crews’s role in that but I had an album that was coming out in the same period and a fragrance launch and a lot of other things I had lined up. It was interesting the way it went down.

“I didn’t try to get involved in the sequel. I already had this picture (The Tomb) lined up and I was a fan of this script.”

Mr Jackson, who found fame in 2003 with his breakthrough hip-hop album Get Rich or Die Tryin’, is happy combining his acting and rapping careers.

“I love both of them,” said the New Yorker.

“In film, I have had moments where I just got a chance to appreciate it from a fan’s perspective and I developed a passion for it and wanted to be a part of different things.”