Last night, Tim Roth along with Zooey Deschanel and Morgan Freeman were guest on The Late Late Show with James Corden, and during the sit down Corden asked Roth about a time when he and his Gridlock’d co-star Tupac Shakur invited him and Thandie Newton to Death Row Records studio and recorded some music together. Roth recalled the event as “terrifying” and “hilarious” in the sense of him being a “pasty face London-boy” walking into the studio with Pac.
During some down time while filming the movie, the actor recalled Tupac wanting to show them his usual workplace, and within the tour of the studio, Tupac set it up for Roth and Newton to go in the booth a freestyle, which Roth says he had trouble doing, being that he couldn’t keep a straight face. Unfortunately, Roth says he didn’t write any of the rhymes, just that 2pac had him say stuff.
What was recorded that day is likely sitting in a vault somewhere, what the actor seemed to be grateful for. So we probably won’t be hearing that studio session anytime soon.