Cynthia Erivo Tapped To Portray Afeni Shakur In New Snoop Dogg Biopic

The Snoop Dogg biopic has almost finished rolling out its cast.

So far, we know, most of the cast. Lauren London as Snoop Dogg’s late mother Beverly Tate, Myles Bullock as Dr. Dre, Algee Smith as Warren G, Camron Jones as Tupac Shakur, Corey Champagne as Nate Dogg, and more. Snoop is played by Jonathan Daviss of Outer Banks. Tre Hale plays Suge Knight.

SwayvoTwain will portray The Notorious BIG, Biggie Smalls in the film. Bentley Green will play RBX and California rapper G Perico is Big Reecie Cup.

Now, the biopic gets a huge name for the cast. Cynthia Erivo of Wicked fame will play Afeni Shakur, the mother of Tupac. It’s unclear how much screen time she’ll get, but Erivo joins the cast as one of the biggest names so far.

The film comes from Universal Pictures, who’s coming off the billion dollar Michael.

They’ve tagged Director Craig Brewer, known for his music-centric stories including Song Sung Blue, Katy Perry: Part Of Me, Hustle & Flow, and the Footloose remake. Snoop Dogg will serve as an executive producer, teasing at Cinemacon that the film will for sure nab an R rating. He then encouraged kids to get their parents’ permission.

“After my brothers got to tell their story with Straight Outta Compton, now it’s my turn,” Snoop said.