The New York Times has posted an article and accompanying slide show from the open casting call for Fox Searchlight’s Notorious as they are searching for the perfect person to portray Christopher G. Wallace, better known as Biggie Smalls or Notorious B.I.G, the East Coast rap artist that was murdered in 1995 in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles.
Fox Searchlight is preparing a biopic on the rapper to be directed by George Tillman Jr. and nearly 100 people turned up on a quiet street in Chelsea to audition for their chance to be B.I.G.
Each candidate was asked to do a few lines from “Warning,†a song about the perils of fame from Biggie’s 1994 debut album, “Ready to Die.†But not everyone knew the words or could keep up, said Mr. Burton, who did and could. Afterward he and others hung around, sizing up the competition, talking to reporters and posing for photos in multi-Biggie combinations of tough-guy stances. A slideshow of 10 of the candidates can be found here.
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