Los Angeles: Rapper Lil Peep was exploring a film career before his death in 2017.
At a screening of the Terrence Malick-produced documentary “Everybody’s Everything”, about the rapper’s rise and untimely end, filmmakers told variety.com that Peep was being pursued to take on his first movie role.
Sebastian Jones, a co-director on the documentary, said he met Peep in Austin, Texas “three days before he passed. I was at one of his shows, and I was so taken by him… I wanted to cast him in a movie”.
Jones is a collaborator and protege of Malick’s, who himself is a longtime friend of Peep’s family, the Womacks.
“We were reaching out to him and he passed away,” said Jones.
Peep died in November 2017 of a drug overdose. He was 21.
–IANS