For actors and actresses, there’s always going to be a role or two you let slip through the cracks when you maybe shouldn’t have. Speaking to HipHollywood, Power’s Larenz Tate uncovered that Jada Pinkett Smith was supposed to be his co-star in 1995’s Dead Presidents, but didn’t end up taking the part over beef Tupac Shakur, who was a very close friend, had with the directing Hughes brothers.
Tate knew JPS had the chance to take on the role of Delilah in the film, but it wasn’t until they were co-stars on Girls Trip years later that he found out the exact reason she turned down the opportunity.
“We’re on set in New Orleans talking about that experience,” Tate reminisced. “I said, ‘I talked to the Hughes brothers and you were supposed to be in the movie.’ And she says ‘I was.’ She was like, ‘I couldn’t do it because, at the time, I was really close with Tupac and Tupac had this beef with the Hughes brothers.’
The Ray actor continued, “She had a good relationship with Tupac and she didn’t want to get in the middle of it. She thought if she had done that movie, it would’ve been a little weird.”
Tupac’s feud with the Hughes brother dates back to him being thrown off the Menace II Society‘s set and later getting into a physical altercation with Allen Hughes on the set of a music video.
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Jada Pinkett and Tupac originally became friends when they attended high school at the Baltimore School for the Arts together in the ’80s. Their friendship would blossom and even as they would both navigate differing paths to fame, the entertainers remained close.
Outside of the recording studio, Tupac starred in several early ’90s blockbusters prior to his 1996 death such as Poetic Justice, Juice and Above the Rim.
Dope
Loyalty.
Dead Presidents is one of the best war movies ever! Thankfully stank ass Jada missed out. She would have killed the vibe.
Was it a war movie? Really.
BITCH NOBODY asked ur funky non loyal ASS SHIT. (Nothing) entangle your ass clean off the comments. May God bless your poor ass soul. You could never be a Jada. It’s always you broke ass bitches that got something negative to say. Always doing the most with the least.
Are you a JPS hater or you fell asleep during the movie?
Dodged a big entanglement with that one.
lots of respect for Jada, that is pure loyalty at its best.
There is little too no loyalty anymore. Good for her.
Yeah loyalty,
it would have been nice if she’d shown her husband the same dedication
Y’all acting like Will didn’t do his dirt too. Did y’all not hear both Will & Jada say “THEY WERE ONLY A COUPLE LEGALLY!”
The only difference between Will & Jada is that Jada’s biz was made public, by a man-child, to sell music. While Will’s biz was a grown azz woman & grown azz women know how to keep their biz…..THEIR BIZ!
Leave the man in peace he is dead bitch
Jada is a home that’s how will left her stupid ass
Always suppose to stay true with your real people
Check out that real music subscribe YouTube Jadyn Nitty Rest in Paradise Legendary Tupac ?
loyalty is royalty
Tupac will Always be Number One in My Heart. He’s Family.. Real Talk.
I don’t remember Jada being in the movie “Ray”. Does anyone else?
I believe Jada & Pac were soulmates. U do t have to be romantically involved to be each other’s soulmate. It just means in every life you live you two will always be connected, as parent & child, siblings, best friends or lovers.
Larenz Tate was in Ray, not Jada.
This is why the hughes brothers shouldn’t be doing anything in the name of Tupac Shakur, which they did
R.I.P. Pac, and shout out to Jada.