Anthony Edwards is flying excessive and placing within the work — however the NBA star says he’s not planning on making an encore as an actor anytime quickly.
“I do not know, man. I am not going to lie,” Edwards tells PEOPLE in an unique interview paired along with his partnership with Chipotle. “That is onerous. I am not going to lie. I gained a brand new respect for appearing as soon as I did that film. I do not suppose I am match for that job.”
Within the film in query — 2022’s Hustle, starring Adam Sandler as an NBA scout — Edwards drew reward for his appearing chops as trash-talking presumptive prime draft decide Kermit Wilts.
However the No. 1 decide within the 2020 NBA Draft tells PEOPLE that he’s extra targeted as of late on his real-life staff, the Minnesota Timberwolves, and their shot to make one other deep run within the playoffs after developing quick final season within the Western Convention Finals.
After an low season commerce that despatched Edwards’ on-the-court complement and off-the-court hilarious sidekick Karl-Anthony Cities to the New York Knicks, the Georgia product is embracing two new teammates — Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo — and likes their possibilities.
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“It has been enjoyable,” Edwards says. “It has been enjoyable making an attempt to determine it out, going by means of the ups and downs. I am not going to say we figured it out proper now, however we’re making an attempt and it is trending in the fitting path, so it’s going good for me.”
One other factor Ant has made positive to show round? His dedication to diet and eating regimen.
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The person who once claimed that he ate 21 bags of Chester’s Hot Fries a week and whose dedication to consuming Popeyes got here a lot to Cities’ chagrin has given technique to somebody who is decided to maintain his physique fats down, and he calls Chipotle one in every of his “go-to’s.”
Listed at 6-foot 4-inches and 225 lb., Edwards has a favourite order, what the corporate has coined the Anthony Edwards Bowl: half rooster, half steak, brown rice, contemporary tomato salsa, roasted chili-corn salsa and lettuce.
“That is simply me,” he says about his order. “I’m good and easy. I get proper to it. I do not do all that messing round.”
With visions of a Christmas Day recreation in Dallas towards the Mavericks (who Edwards says is without doubt one of the prime groups within the West, alongside the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder) dancing in his head, Ant is headlining this staff, and easing into the function of what many have anointed him: the longer term face of the NBA.
“I’m outdated, man,” the 23-year outdated jokes to PEOPLE. “I’m getting older.”
