Tupac Shakur Biopic Now Casting For Lead Role

By Boombox Editors Posted Mar 18th 2011 10:45AM

Are you a thespian with a penchant for impersonating Tupac Shakur? Well, producers of the long-awaited Tupac biopic might have the role of a lifetime waiting for you. Production on the film is well underway, but now the production company, Morgan Creek, needs to find someone to play the role of the West Coast MC. In addition to a normal industry-wide search, Morgan Creek has partnered with Skee.TV to accept video auditions for the role.

Casting officially begins on March 21, and interested parties can head over to a new website called In Search of Tupac and submit a five-minute video audition sometime in the next month. As producer David Robinson tells it, the producers want someone with the right combination of rawness and charisma -- just like Pac himself.

"At this point, we're more concerned about finding someone with the ability to give their entire heart into the performance than just looks and personality," he told TooFab.com.

As previously reported, filming will be led by 'Training Day' director Antoine Fuqua. James G. Robinson, David Robinson, LT Hutton and Tupac's mother Afeni Shakur are signed on as executive producers. The search for an unknown leading man to a play an iconic rapper will definitely draw similarities to the long search for casting during the production of the Biggie biopic 'Notorious.'

Watch Tupac's 'Changes' video.

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Friday 18 March

By cammerconcepts

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Don Cheadle would be a good choice.

By stu

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too bad gary colman wasn't alive.

By lillymc

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Who said Gray Coleman isn't alive? Sounds like he lives through you.

By lillync

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I can't wait to see this way long over due biopic. I'm in my 50's and didn't really get into Pac until he died. He was very intelligent and such a visionary. There were some parts of him that I didn't like but there are some parts of myself that I'm not fond of either. I did not believe he raped anyone either and that was my opinion when he was charged with the crime; that is one thought that I harbored before he died.

By billyp01

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i wonder if tupac is gonna try out for the part

By Mike

Fantasia Barino would be perfect for the lead!

By KS.

you got THAT right..

As far as I know Jesus was the only perfect person roaming this earth and he is not here to tell his story so what's your point.

He was murdered; how many people did he murder? Well you said he died by the way he lived...............

Saturday 19 March

By burt878

@thuglife talking all that jazz about tupac but you using the name thuglife (lmao!!).its cool that you dont like the dude cause everyone is entitled to there own opinion. but its always knuckle heads like you talking about he ran his mouth so much.i guess he needed to talk about jewelery,cars,money,rims,girls,and da clubs.that all you knuckle heads want hear nowadays anyway. you dont want to hear about whats going on in the world,and music that has a message behind it. which all his music did have.

By keke b

Tupac was an amzing rapper and I'm still trying to figure out what someone said. He died by the way he lived. Tupac said he was a thug so what. Listen to his lyrics, that's his heart, his pain and many ppeople related to him. No, I didn't get the chance to know him, but from his music he made mistakes and owned up to them. It wasn't about running your mouth because as far as I'm concerned rappers continue to spit trash about one another as the time changes. It was more east coast versus west coast back then.

Sunday 20 March

By Brandy

Hummm....Fredro Starr?! Is that too far off?

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