First we find out who will play Tupac Shakur, now it’s been confirmed that the Benny Boom-helmed film, All Eyez on Me, has found the actor to portray Afeni Shakur. Filling the role will be The Walking Dead‘s Danai Gurira, who is mostly known for her role of samurai sword-wielding badass Michonne on the hit AMC show. As far as casting goes, they’ve nailed it with Gurira and Demetrius Shipp Jr. as the legendary rapper.
For those not versed in the background of Afeni Shakur, she was a member of the Black Panther Party, poet, actress, political prisoner, and philanthropist. With the money made from Pac’s posthumous albums, she founded the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation, which spawned The Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts, that provides arts programs for the youth, and is based in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Unfortunately, the center was closed down in 2014.
So, Gurira has some pretty big shoes to fill, hopefully, she’ll deliver something spectacular.