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He portrayed rapper and actor Tupac Shakur in the 2017 biopic All Eyez on Me, [2] [3] [4] as well as gang leader Tyrone Moore in All American. Shipp was cast in the role of Tupac in 2011, after a friend suggested he audition given his strong resemblance to the legendary hip-hop artist. Shipp remarked in an interview that he "never aspired to act."
Jamal Woolard joined the film to play The Notorious B.I.G., Tupac's friend turned rival, reprising his starring role in the 2009 film Notorious. [5] [6] On January 11, 2016, Danai Gurira was added to the film's cast to play Tupac's mother Afeni Shakur, a political activist and member of the Black Panther Party. [7]
In 2018, Jimmi Simpson starred as Poole in Unsolved: Tupac & Biggie, a ten-part series originating on the USA Network, also on Netflix. IndieWire praised the "elevated artistry" of Simpson's performance, while Vulture.com commented in their review: "In an ensemble this solid, it can be challenging for one performance to emerge as a standout.
And it was Tupac. He was unknown at the time. I didn’t know he had an album in the can [his 1991 solo debut, 2Pacalypse Now], and he had a movie [1992’s Juice] in the can. He wasn’t famous ...
Disney's animated movie "Encanto," features a girl in Colombia and a Latino family's superpowers. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Stephanie Beatriz and Diane Guerrero discuss.
Scoring bit parts in in shows like "Doogie Howser, M.D." and "21 Jump Street," Pinkett Smith got her big break in 1991 when producer Debbie Allen cast her in the TV series "A Different World."
Encanto is a 2021 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.It was directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard, co-directed by Charise Castro Smith, and produced by Yvett Merino and Clark Spencer, with original songs written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and an original score composed by Germaine Franco.
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