Tupac Shakur, Thandie Newton, and Tim Roth in "Gridlock'd", which premiered four months after Shakur died of gunshot injuries.
“Yeah – and?” I say. “So let’s keep it together.” I schlurp my drink—can’t work out if it’s hot or cold—smile at the stink-eyers in front, exchange crazed grins and knee squeezes with my girlfriend, and swivel my head back to the front. By the time I came to America hip hop obviously had a solid foothold on the music scene, but Tupac wasn’t on my radar – which is pathetic if I think about it. But it was a different world: cell phones weren’t available, and the internet was in its very early stages – so you listened to radio and you bought albums, you bought CDs.
It was also out to Laurence Fishburne at the time, but he had done a long run on a play that involved drugs and addiction [asdoes], so he backed away from it in the end. I was very keen on working with Laurence, so I was like ‘oh’. And we were back to square one.I was like, “You can stop right there. I need an actor who’s got some fucking chops to do this And it’s comedy, which is even harder. Serious [comedic] timing is going to be needed if we’re going to pull this off.
Then I get up to leave and I realize Tupac has just auditioned, which is the most idiotic concept, the idea of he auditioned – and not only that: he blew it out the water, but I felt that, and we talked about it later, that he obviously this pasty face Londonis sitting there. And he felt, “Well, I better let him know that I can do the job.” And he sure. He sure did.
I don’t know. I mean, I only saw the one side of him. I remember … um. I don’t … I don’t. I mean, I don’t know. I don’t wanna get tabloidy on it.I think he was a … I think he was … you know, yes, I think he was complicated, and I think he was an artist and he was brilliant. Um. I don’t know about that stuff.
This guy had been shot five times. And Tupac was joking with him. He said, “Well, you got one more on me.” We lived in each other’s pockets for a time, and the idea of someone getting gunned down was alien to where I came from, you know? It was a very strange and sad circumstance.
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