Jonathan Daviss Talks Playing Snoop Dogg In Upcoming Biopic & His Reaction to Getting the Role | BET Awards 2025 - video Dailymotion

Jonathan Daviss chatted with Lauren-Ashley Beck & Billboard’s Kyle Denis on the red carpet at the BET Awards 2025.

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00:00All right, we are at the 2025 BET Awards.

00:03You're playing Mr. Snoop Dogg.

00:05I thought you were Snoop when you walked up.

00:08Right.

00:09I got the braids on.

00:10I'm not in costume anymore.

00:10But I see it all over the face.

00:12So when you got that role, what was that feeling like?

00:15It was crazy.

00:16I was auditioning for that role for months.

00:18Yeah.

00:18It was a stinger process.

00:21Dogg wanted to put me through my paces and make sure that I was the right person for this.

00:24I was relieved.

00:25I was excited.

00:27Just ready to go.

00:27Did you get to work with Snoop directly?

00:31Not for the first audition, but once he met me, he just kind of took me under his wing

00:36and just kind of spent some time with him so I could get a better idea of who he was as a person

00:41so I could play him as well as I could.

00:44It was just a great process.

00:46We're going to keep working on it.

00:47Yeah, and he's being honored tonight.

00:48What's your favorite Snoop song?

00:50My favorite is G's Up, O's Down.

00:52Ooh!

00:53But that's a deep cut.

00:54So other than that, I'm going to just say G-Thang.

00:56Keep it classic.

00:57G-Thang.

00:57All right.

00:58Thank you so much.

00:58Have so much fun in there.

00:59We can't wait to see it.

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