Celebrities will be heading to the Park City slopes Thursday for the Sundance Film Festival, which runs through Feb. 1.
Rapper A$AP Rocky will be making his acting debut at the festival via the coming-of-age drama “Dope.”
The producers include Sean “Diddy” Combs, Forest Whitaker and Pharrell, who lent some original songs. The premiere and party are Saturday at Acura Studio. Also in the movie is A$AP Rocky’s ex-girlfriend, Chanel Iman.
According to the director, Rocky requested an audition after he helped Chanel practice her part.
“The main character, Malcolm (Shameik Moore) is a Nineties hip-hop geek,” director Rick Famuyiwa says of Dope‘s protagonist, a modern-day teen who lives in Inglewood, Calif. “He isn’t a drug dealer or a gang banger. He’s into all types of music, and video games and computers. We’ve seen a lot of films about everything else in these neighborhoods—the crime, the athletes, the gangs—but you don’t see films about the regular kids who have to survive in these streets.”
Watch the trailer HERE
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