Tupac Shakur

Juice makes Shakur's screen presence central to a friendship becoming dangerous. As Bishop, he turns the desire for status into a pressure that changes the behaviour of everyone around him. The effectiveness lies in the escalation: bravado ceases to feel like a shared performance and becomes something the others cannot safely answer. Start with this role for a young performer making menace specific to a character and situation. It offers a clearer test of his acting than reading his later public image back into the film.