Diddy Wants Tupac Shakur’s Role In ‘Juice’
Diddy reveals he wanted to play Bishop, the legendary character of Tupac Shaker in Juice… but the producers shunned him.
“When we were filming Juice, Andre Harrell was filming [a movie, which] Puff was working on… Puff got fired from that movie, and he said ‘Ralph, you’re working for Juice, I want to be Bishop. I looked at the script. Bishop, that’s me” and I said, ‘But we’ve got someone to be Bishop, the only one that gets cast is Tupac. ” [Diddy] like, ‘No, I’m from Harlem Ralph, think about it. Think about it. Scenario, that’s me. ‘ And I was like ‘That’s [going to be] hard. That is [going to be] Ralph McDaniels said.
He continued, “And I remember going to the producer and just feeling it… And [the producer] like, ‘Absolutely not. Absolutely not. We had ‘Pac, that’s the only one we had, and Puff just got fired [Strictly] Business… and we know him. He can’t be in this movie. “So I said ‘Okay, no problem. “