Conor McGregor reportedly lands role in big Hollywood movie

Conor McGregor is about to go Hollywood.

Earlier this week, we fully agreed with Mark Wahlberg when he suggested the UFC featherweight champion could be a movie star, given the right role. Mere hours later and Vin Diesel swooped in to let us all know that he had added a Notorious cast member to his new film. https://www.instagram.com/p/_SRyqemPhR/?taken-by=vindiesel Diesel is reprising his role as extreme sports-loving agent Xander Cage for the next installment of xXx. The character, first portrayed by Diesel in 2002, is heading back to the silver screen and McGregor should be keeping him company. Before McGregor slew Jose Aldo, he revealed Diesel had visited him in L.A in the lead-up to the fight to discuss various projects. The actor has previous with the UFC, having secured former UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey a cameo in Fast and Furious 7.