Shipp's uncanny resemblance to Shakur inspired his friends to call him "Pac" in high school. Shipp's dad is a music producer who worked on one of Shakur's songs. The delays — prompted by the departure of two potential directors and a legal battle with Shakur's estate over his life rights — allowed Shipp to properly study acting, and he was unexpectedly reunited with a teacher from his youth. Shipp, 28, appears in nearly every frame of "All Eyez on Me," which tracks Shakur's life from his teens to his violent death in 1996, with nods to his activist upbringing by his Black Panther parents. Producer L.T.