While most attendees of last week’s Sundance Film Festival left Park City, Utah early on to attend the inauguration in Washington, Mike Tyson stuck around to try and push his critically-acclaimed documentary “Tyson.”
“I never used to understand why people perceived me as such a monster, and then I saw the movie and it all made sense,” the former heavyweight said at Bon Appetit’s Supper Club bash post-screening.
The James Toback-directed film, which chronicles the boxer’s rise and fall, was sold at Sundance to Sony Pictures Classics. The film begins with a young Tyson getting beaten up in the rough area of Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant, where he grew up. There, Tyson got his first KO during a scuffle – over pigeons.
During a speech following the screening, “Mike talked about how surreal the whole filmmaking experience was and how the movie captured the ups and downs of his life,” recalled ESPN the Magazine’s Neil Janowitz. “When he hit rock bottom and things were awful, he never wanted to go through that again. But now, with the film coming out and being in Sundance, Mike says he’s the toast of the town again.”
Tyson went on to say that “people are offering me a lot of p***y and a lot of money again.” When everyone in the room laughed uncomfortably, Tyson corrected the chucklers. “It’s not funny,” Tyson chided. “This stuff is detrimental. I had a hard time controlling it in the past.”
While most of the people were laughing at him, take a look back and when no one dared to laugh at Iron Mike Tyson with ‘Best Of… Knock-Out Edition’:
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