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Demetrius Shipp Jr. has the role of a lifetime as he plays the role of Tupac in his biopic ‘All Eyez on Me‘. With that comes pressure of a lifetime as well, but as far as this clip shows, it looks like he nailed it.
Shipp posted a picture to Instagram after he was done filming:
In an interview with XXL Shipp spoke about how he got the role:
Demetrius Shipp, Jr.: My best friend showed my this flyer that they had all over the Internet about a national casting call that they did for the role of Tupac. They had a website and you had to do like a monologue, pictures and a video. You had to upload the video to their site. You also had to upload it to your social networks and YouTube. I did it the last day and my dad happened to be a producer for Death Row as well. He produced “Toss It Up” for 2Pac.
So being that he was a producer at Death Row, he was also cool with L.T. Hutton, who was also a producer at Death Row. So I hadn’t told my dad that I was doing it or anybody. I just went out and did it. I submitted it on Facebook and my dad seen it. From there, he forwarded it to L.T. on Facebook. Then there were calls made like “Wow, that’s your son? I have to meet him.” It was just an ongoing process since like 2011.
With the recent success of the N.W.A. movie, this movie looks poised to be a box office hit.
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