2Pac and Jada Pinkett Smith remained close right until his premature dying. But when the rapper was alive, the actress was even now devoutly loyal to him—so faithful that she turned down a function in the 1995 film Dead Presidents simply because of Pac.

In a new job interview with HipHollywood, Larenz Tate—who performed Anthony Curtis in the film—revealed why Pinkett Smith declined the job in the Hughes brothers-helmed motion picture.

“We’re on set in New Orleans talking about that practical experience,” Tate reported, referring to them becoming on location to film Ladies Journey. “I reported, ‘I talked to the Hughes brothers and you were intended to be in the movie.’ And she states ‘I was.’ She was like, ‘I could not do it mainly because, at the time, I was truly near with 2Pac and 2Pac had this beef with the Hughes brothers.’”

Tate reported that he’d regarded she’d been provided the possibility to play the role of Delilah in Dead Presidents. He added that Pinkett Smith realized her working with the Hughes brothers could make factors unpleasant for her friendship with 2Pac. The rapper and the directors commenced feuding on the established of Menace II Society, which ended up in 2Pac obtaining bodily with the brothers.