“Because I’m not a typical homegirl,” actress Thandie Newton recalls, “one of the first things I said to him was,
‘What’s that tattoo? It looks like a penis.’ And it did!” Newton shakes her head at the memory of her very English gaucheness.
“And he laughed and laughed and laughed. I think it was actually a crucifix. My filthy English mind!”
The “he” Newton’s referring to is the late rap star Tupac Shakur, with whom she co-starred in the 1997 film Gridlock’d, Vondie Curtis-Hall’s darkly comic drama about Detroit junkies.
“He was so…fertile!” she exclaims, meaning the potency of his mind rather than the potency of, well, his seed. “[Shakur] was a smart guy, and…he would talk to me. [His] whole street persona would go, and he would just talk. I didn’t know anything about him.” When she asked him about another mark on his body, “He said, ‘It’s a scar from being shot.’
‘What?! You were shot?’
He’s like [incredulously], ‘You don’t know I was shot at point-blank range?’ He told me the whole story about how he was shot for the first time in his goolies [testes], then his fucking skull. But it was someone sweet telling you the story.
I saw [Tupac] angry one night and drunk, and I thought, ‘OK, that’s what [the violence] is all about…’
“But then I also saw him angry one night and drunk, and I thought,
‘OK, that’s what [the violence] is all about…’”
http://giantmag.com/2007/02/movies/just-like-thandie/
‘What’s that tattoo? It looks like a penis.’ And it did!” Newton shakes her head at the memory of her very English gaucheness.
“And he laughed and laughed and laughed. I think it was actually a crucifix. My filthy English mind!”
The “he” Newton’s referring to is the late rap star Tupac Shakur, with whom she co-starred in the 1997 film Gridlock’d, Vondie Curtis-Hall’s darkly comic drama about Detroit junkies.
“He was so…fertile!” she exclaims, meaning the potency of his mind rather than the potency of, well, his seed. “[Shakur] was a smart guy, and…he would talk to me. [His] whole street persona would go, and he would just talk. I didn’t know anything about him.” When she asked him about another mark on his body, “He said, ‘It’s a scar from being shot.’
‘What?! You were shot?’
He’s like [incredulously], ‘You don’t know I was shot at point-blank range?’ He told me the whole story about how he was shot for the first time in his goolies [testes], then his fucking skull. But it was someone sweet telling you the story.
I saw [Tupac] angry one night and drunk, and I thought, ‘OK, that’s what [the violence] is all about…’
“But then I also saw him angry one night and drunk, and I thought,
‘OK, that’s what [the violence] is all about…’”
http://giantmag.com/2007/02/movies/just-like-thandie/
