New Yorker interviews Jamal Woolard aka Gravy about being Biggie
The New Yorker has an interesting piece about what it took for Jamal Woodard to become the Notorious BIG. Here is a quote from the story…
Not long ago, on the movie set, in Washington Heights, Woolard removed cotton balls from his mouth and rubbed his right cheek, which had just been slapped a dozen times by Angela Bassett. “She’s for real,” he said. “Can’t be faking that. It could affect sales.” Bassett plays Voletta Wallace, B.I.G.’s mother, and they’d been filming the scene in which she discovers her son’s drugs—at first, she mistakes them for mashed potatoes—and kicks him out of the house. (Wallace is a producer of the movie, and when she first saw Woolard come in to audition she said, “That’s my son.”)
The story is quite interesting and makes me want to see the movie even more than before. Here is a link to the story here.
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