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Michelle Williams wanted to become a boxer

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Michelle Williams has revealed she wanted to become a boxer as a child and had no dreams of becoming an actress.

The 'Oz the Great and Powerful' star, who shot to fame as a teenager on TV show 'Dawson's Creek', wanted to follow in the footsteps of her idol Mike Tyson by roughhousing in the ring, reported Contactmusic.

"Nobody in my family does anything in the film business. It wasn't that I had a special or remarkable passion (for film). I was just one kid doing little plays.

"The only thing I remember wanting to be was a boxer and it went from boxer to actress. I wanted to box men, but that never happened," she said.
 

The 32-year-old actress was also intent on being the best boxer and wouldn't consider fighting in a lower weight class.

"I wanted to be a heavyweight boxer. I wasn't interested in watching featherweight, welterweight. I grew up when Mike Tyson was the reigning champ. I watched all of his fights. And Sugar Ray Robinson and George Foreman. I was a tomboy when I was a kid.

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First Published: Mar 05 2013 | 6:55 AM IST

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