Snoop Dogg to be played by 'Outer Banks' star Jonathan Daviss in new biopic
We now know who will play Snoop Dogg in his upcoming music biopic.
Jonathan Daviss has been cast in the lead role of Snoop Dogg in the upcoming film about the hip-hop legend for Universal.
Daviss and Snoop Dogg confirmed the casting in separate posts shared to Instagram on Monday.
"Let's go nefew !! it's time," Snoop Dogg captioned his post, tagging Daviss.
"Bow wow wow," Daviss captioned his own post announcing the news.
Daviss is best known for his role as Pope Heyward in the Netflix series "Outer Banks."
On the red carpet at the BET Awards on Monday, Daviss said he is excited to take on the role of portraying the legendary rapper.
"I was like, 'Is this happening? It's happening. All right, let's go. Let's do it,'" he said in an interview with "Extra," recalling his reaction to being cast in the role.
Snoop Dogg, whose birth name is Calvin Broadus Jr., said the biopic will be an "evolution story" of how he got to where he is today.
"A lot of people just see me for who I am now, and they don't know what I went through and what I had to, you know, do to get to this stage, and the people that taught me, the lessons that I learned, and the reason why I am who I am," he told "Extra." "It's the love child story."
The rapper, who was joined on the red carpet by his wife Shante Broadus and their daughter Cori Broadus, one of the couple's four children, added that the biopic will also show his family life.
"I think you're going to learn what family is all about, what the roots of family means and what love is," he said. "Like how my mother taught me how to love, and that's how I was able to overcome and, you know, beat a lot of things that I faced in my life. And that's what I teach and preach is love."
"Coming 2 America" director Craig Brewer will direct Daviss in the role.
Snoop Dogg serves as a producer on the film.
