Played on screen by Samuel L. Jackson in George Lucas’ Star Wars prelogy, Jedi master Mace Windu could have been played by a famous rapper. But the disastrous fate decided otherwise …
If you are a fan of Star Wars, we will not insult you by explaining to you again who is the Jedi master Mace Windu, embodied by the King of Cool himself, Samuel L. Jackson, in the prelogy signed George Lucas. Among other tasty anecdote, we remember that the actor himself asked the filmmaker to choose the color of his lightsaber, purple, to be able to stand out in the melee of the collective confrontation that concluded Attack of the Clones .
On the other hand, perhaps you are ignoring the following anecdote. In an interview with the site 2pac-forum in 2014, Rick Clifford, former manager of Death Row Recordsrevealed that rapper Tupac Shakur could have played the Jedi master instead of Samuel L. Jackson!
“He told me he was supposed to do a script reading for George Lucas and the studio folks. They wanted him to play a Jedi. Yes, I’m serious, and ultimately Samuel L. Jackson was the one who ended up doing it. had the role “ Clifford commented.
Fate, disastrous, decided otherwise. If The Phantom Menace was released in 1999, the pre-production of the film began shortly before the assassination of the rapper, which took place in Las Vegas in 1996. At that time, the singer, still an apprentice actor, had less than a handful of films to his credit. Juice, his very first film, released in 1992; Poetic Justice, Gridlock’d, released a year after his death, and the crime drama Bullet, in which the rapper played a junkie released on parole after eight years in prison, overtaken by his old habits and plunged back into violence.
Tupac as a Jedi master, it could have been tough. But Samuel L. Jackson is, ultimately, far from demerit in his role.