Salon Pictures has announced that Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning actor John Hurt has joined the cast of My Name Is Lenny, the upcoming biopic of bare-knuckle fighter Lenny McLean.
X-Men: Apocalypse star Josh Helman leads the cast as The Guv’nor, with Chanel Cresswell (This Is England ’90) playing his wife Val and UFC Middleweight Champion Michael Bisping (xXx: The Return of Xander Cage) as his arch rival Roy ‘Pretty Boy’ Shaw.
Also featuring in the supporting cast of the film are Nick Moran (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), Jennifer Brooke (Astral), Charley Palmer Rothwell (Ripper Street) and the current bare knuckle world champion fighter Decca Heggie.
SEE ALSO: First look at Josh Helman as Lenny McLean in biopic My Name is Lenny
My Name Is Lenny is directed by Ron Scalpello (Bobby) and chronicles Lenny McLean’s origin as a young street fighter in 1970s East London, the haunting effects of horrific childhood abuse, and his bitter rivalry with Roy Shaw across three unlicensed boxing matches, culminating in Lenny taking the championship title of “The Guv’nor”.
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