
Tupac Shakur

Shakur: The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images; Mace Windu: Classic images/Lucasfilm Ltd.
According to Rick Clifford — who worked as an engineer at Tupac’s label, Death Row Records — Pac reportedly read for the part of Mace Windu in the early stages of Episode I: The Phantom Menace. However, following the rapper’s death in September 1996, the role of the Jedi master went to Samuel L. Jackson.
“Pac found out that I worked for Brian Austin Green, who was on 90210, then he found out I [worked on] some movies, so we always talked about his film career and stuff,” Clifford told the website 2Pac-Forum. “He was telling me that he was supposed to read for George Lucas and them. They wanted him to be a Jedi. I’m serious. Samuel L. got Tupac’s part. [Tupac] said [to me], ‘Old man, keep your fingers crossed.’ He said, ‘I’ve got three movies coming up. One of them, I’ve got to read for George Lucas.'”
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