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Rapper T.I. struggled to balance his post-prison responsibilities with hi s film commitments on the set of new movie TAKERS - because his home arre st ankle bracelet kept going off and ruining takes.
The Live Your Life hitmaker shot the film, in which he plays a recently incarcerated thief, following his release from prison on illegal weapons possession charges in December (09).
His criminal sentence included a curfew, which required T.I. to be at h ome by 1am, and he wasn’t allowed to hold any guns on set.
But it was his location-monitoring ankle bracelet that presented the bi ggest challenge - during one night shoot, it was set off, forcing a resho ot, according to the Los Angeles Times.
He insists, "(It was) just another day at the office." But the American Gangster star insists he’s no longer the liability on a film set he once was when he’d show up late and act like the movie’s st ar.
He tells the newspaper, "If I=E2=80=99m going to a concert and they say I gotta be there at 10, and I don=E2=80=99t show up until 12, everything all good because the show can=E2=80=99t go without me. Whereas, on a fil m, if you five minutes late, you late.
"I had just got from music. I had just got a seven, eight million-dolla r cheque, so I was pulling up in Rolls Royces, smoke coming out like Snoo p Dogg. I didn=E2=80=99t treat the circumstances as delicate as they were .." T.I. is currently in talks with movie moguls Brett Ratner and Brian Gra zer about upcoming film roles.
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