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Over ten years after his death, Fox Searchlight studios are looking for the someone who can fill Notorious B.I.G.'s big shoes in a movie about the rapper. This past Saturday the nationwide search focused in on New York, where a few dozen look-a-likes lined up for their shot to play Biggie on the big screen.
The requirements and a message from the producer are on the casting site, obviously one must meet the appearance test first. When the rapper (real name Christopher Wallace) died he was 24, 6' 3" and weighed about 300 pounds. Even meeting the physical requirements isn't a shoe-in for the role, however. Since Biggie grew up there, many Brooklynites are claiming they are the only ones who can really portray him accurately. One told the Daily News: "I've got the swagger. I've lived the life. I know what he went through and I think it would be all natural [for me to play him]." The Times also has some photos of the faux-Biggies.
Whoever gets cast will have to learn all of the pseudonyms the rapper went by, one of which was Frank White (taken from the lead character in King of New York). Recently (on October 5th) a new cafe/gallery called Frank White opened in Brooklyn, and features a photo of Biggie to honor his memory. ClintonHillBlog has some more info on the new social space, as well an interior shot (that's some nice wallpaper). Frank White is located at 936 Atlantic Ave at St. James Place, and CHB notes that this is just down the street from where the famed rapper grew up.
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I think rap is dead.
the whole ultra macho attitude does not bring cohesion or even progression to the black community, only to those few that are "top dogs" in the bussiness.
Maybe teenager will be always influenced by market driven money hungry "artists".
This type of music is a zombie..a living dead, eating the souls of living creatures, to make them dead....
it was still called bed stuy when biggie lived on st james place, and that's how he always referred to his neighborhood.
Isn't Al Roker available?
Yawn. Who cares about Biggie anymore? But if they're going to make the movie anyway, they should cast Martin Lawrence in fat suit and make it a comedy.
Are you telling me there is a shortage of 6' 3", 300 pound African-Americans in this world?
I don't think so.
RC you beat me to the punch, however I would add "ugly" to the mix...hehe
Forrest Whitaker!!!! would be PERFECT
Turn off your radio. Rap and hip hop is far from dead.
Yeah! Bring on Biggie Momma's Funeral House R.I.P.
Check out the Daily News story -- Shaun Monroe, 35, came into the city from Linden, New Jersey -- looks EGGSACTLY like Biggie!
Hiphop is in many boomboxes in deed, but then the boombox carrier will be shot...therefore Rap is dead my friend, by whom? no other than rap fans.
Rap is a dead sentence.
King Tito's gloves. He's lucky he's dead, cause I'll take that glove and I'll wrap it right arouhnd....
ching chong luvs King of NY?
is that because chinks are in it?