Bisping in trailer for Lenny McLean biopic
“The film chronicles Lenny McLean’s rivalry with Roy Shaw across three unlicensed boxing matches, culminating in Lenny taking the championship title of ‘The Guv’nor.’”
UFC middleweight champion Michael ‘The Count’ Bisping appears in the trailer for the boxing movie My Name Is Lenny, which stars Mad Max: Fury Road and X-Men: Apocalypse actor Josh Helman.
According to Variety, the pic is based on the true-life story of bare-knuckle fighter Lenny McLean, also known as The Guv’nor. Helman stars as the boxer, with Chanel Cresswell, a BAFTA winner with This Is England: 90, as his wife, Val McLean. Bisping (Twin Peaks, xXx: Return of Xander Cage) plays his arch rival, Roy Pretty Boy Shaw.
The supporting cast features Michael Gambon (Harry Potter series, Hail, Caesar!), Nick Moran (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), Jennifer Brooke (Astral), Charley Palmer Rothwell (Legend, Ripper Street), and the current bare-knuckle boxing world champion, Decca Heggie.
Directed by Ron Scalpello (Offender, Pressure, Bobby), the screenplay is by Paul Van Carter (Offender, The Guv’nor) and Martin Askew (Snow in Paradise, Rocknrolla).
The film chronicles Lenny McLean’s origin as a young street fighter in 1970s East End 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.’
In his later life, McLean went on to become a bestselling author, and had roles in TV and film, the best known being Barry the Baptist in Guy Ritchie’s debut Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, shortly before he died in 1998.