Snoop Dogg's Biopic Lands a Gen Z Star — But It's Not Who You'd Expect
Snoop Dogg has found the right man for the job.
The rap star's upcoming biopic with Universal Pictures had a big announcement on June 9. The film cast a Gen Z star to play the lead role about Calvin Broadus Jr.'s rise to the top from the streets of Long Beach, CA to Hollywood. The actor who will play the coveted role is familiar to Outer Banks fans — it's actor Jonathan Daviss, according to Deadline.
Daviss plays Pope Heyward on the Netflix series which was just picked up for its fifth and final season. The YA adventure series that began in 2020 was a breakthrough career moment for the 25-year-old actor.
'Being a public figure changes the way you just do anything, when everybody's looking at you. It exacerbates a lot of who you are, and that can be kind of scary,' he told Bustle in October 2024. 'Your privacy is kind of gone to [the point] where everybody cares about who you're with. You're just like, 'Man, I'm a person, just like you're a person.''
Daviss better get used to the attention because his career just got bigger with the Snoop Dogg biopic. The 53-year-old rapper shared the news in a June 9 Instagram post. He wrote in the caption, "Let's go nefew [nephew] !!" while tagging Daviss. The young actor responded in the comments, "It's up Unc. [uncle]"
Daviss added a post to his feed, too. "Bow wow wow," he wrote next to the Deadline article.
Outer Banks may have put Daviss on Hollywood's radar, but the Snoop Dogg biopic will take his fame to a whole new level.Snoop Dogg's Biopic Lands a Gen Z Star — But It's Not Who You'd Expect first appeared on Men's Journal on Jun 9, 2025
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