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Tim Roth (On bonding with Tupac Shakur while filming the movie "Gridlock'd") Yeah, the thing about working with any actor if you are working with such depth is you have to bond real quick and you have to keep it there. As much as I may have been pissed off with him everyday and he may have been pissed off with me, we had to reveal a lot about ourselves real quick as if our relationship had gone back years and we did that.

Tim Roth (On the film "Gridlock'd" and Tupac Shakur) A little bit. Yeah. I first met Pac before he was cast. He wanted to play the part of Spoon and he said to them, if he hasn't seen any of my movies, don't let him see my movies, and if he hasn't listen to my music, then don't let him listen to my music and don't let him see my music videos. Let me meet him as I really am, not as my public person." And he walked in and I met this guy who was twenty five years old and he knew the character. It was a guy who wanted to do a great film. I used to quietly slide into his trailer during the day at some point when no one was around. I would kick back and have a beer and he would be sitting there writing, which was good. Good to see. He worked at it. His success was not a fluke. He was a poet. There as this big tough guy performance that goes on in him and I have never seen anybody so scared in all my life. We were in a back alley shooting the stabbing scene and there were rats running around. And he literally was terrified. He kept jumping up and down shouting, "Did you see that, that was a rat!!" It was like suddenly he was four years old and it made me laugh.

Tim Roth (On Tupac Shakur and the film "Gridlock'd") He was actually the straight man in the film. The solid guy. My character was all over the place and he was like my dad in the film. He was constantly having to watch my back because I am always getting myself in trouble saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.