“You can’t see what it was like for him to be romantic with a woman. “Because it shows a Pac that you can’t see anywhere else. Shipp’s favorite scenes were with Annie Ilonzeh, who plays Kidada, the daughter of Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton, who was engaged to Tupac at the time of his death. It shows a Pac that you can’t see anywhere else.
(Earlier this year he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.) Alongside Shipp, the film stars Danai Gurira (“The Walking Dead”), Kat Graham (“The Vampire Diaries”) and Jamal Woolard (“Notorious”). In the vein of 2015’s “Straight Outta Compton,” which charted the rise of rap group N.W.A, “Eyez” aims to chronicle the impact the Harlem-born artist had on the music scene. “All Eyez on Me,” titled after the last album Tupac released while alive, is set to be one of the summer’s standouts. Hutton says, ‘The objective of this movie is to show you how he ended up in the car that night.’” “They’ll judge you by what you do, but they never know what you had to choose from,” Shipp said.
To others, he was a hardcore gangster whose chosen lifestyle, replete with guns, drugs and sexual assault allegations, dictated that death by drive-by shooting at 25 was probable.īut to Demetrius Shipp Jr., who plays Tupac Shakur in the biopic “All Eyez on Me” - due in theaters on June 16, what would’ve been the rapper’s 46th birthday - he was just a product of his environment, complex and complicated like everyone else. To some, the rapper-turned-actor was a mother-loving prophet and poet whose life was cut short.
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