Here are McGregor’s comments regarding the role, Bisping and Hollywood as a whole:
“I should get a cut of that,” McGregor said. “I didn’t even get a thank you off Bisping. That was my role. I met with the guy before the Aldo fight — the director came out, his and his little team came out and we spoke and I said yeah, I’ll do the film. And then after the last fight I rang him up and I said listen, I can’t go into this, because it’s not something I’m trying to do right now. I need to get that win back. I need to go focus and do what got me here in the first place, so I disengaged from the film altogether.”
“That was a seven-figure deal that I turned down so I could prepare for this fight. Myself and Bisping are managed by the same people. Bisping scooped up the role, he got it, and that was that. So I just let that go. This is more important to me. I’ve said it before, I am not in this for show business. This is the fight business I am in here and that’s all I’m trying to do here. I’m not trying to do none of this other sh*t.”
