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England footballers Rio Ferdinand and Ashley Cole attended the premiere of Dead Man Running in London on Friday, a British Gangster film that the pair have co-produced.

Manchester United defender Ferdinand put up the money to make the film on the understanding that his childhood friend Tamar Hassan who grew up on the same Peckham estate in south London, would star in the film.

Ferdinand also insisted that fifteen work placements were found for disadvantaged youngsters  that he supports through his Rio Ferdinand Live The Dream Foundation.

The film also stars British actress Brenda Blethyn, who thought she might play the part of a gangsters mole, but ended up playing ’someone’s wheelchair bound Mum.’

American rapper 50 Cent also appears in the film and Blethyn says: “Curtis (50 Cent) was great. My street cred has gone through the roof with all my nieces and nephews.”

Co star in Dead Man Running is Danny Dyer who expressed his gratitude to the footballers for backing the project, saying;

“They were great because they’ve given us publicity and that’s all a film needs. They didn’t get involved because they don’t understand it. You know, I’m not going to tell them how to play football so they weren’t going to start telling us how to make a film.”