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Tobe Nwigwe

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Tobechukwu Dubem "Tobe" Nwigwe (born March 8, 1987) is an American rapper and actor. As an actor, he has played Nick in Mo and himself in Rap Sh!t. He performed the song "They Want It, But No" for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and "On My Soul" for the Rise of the Beasts film.

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Roles

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Notes

  • Reek was based on Tarik Jackson, a close friend of the film's director Steven Caple Jr.. Jackson had been a fan of Nwigwe's work and sadly passed away in 2021 prior to shooting, leading Caple Jr. to have Paramount reach out to Nwigwe himself to portray the character in tribute.[1]

References

  1. "The way I got the Transformers role was insane. [...] One of [Steven Caple Jr.'s] best friends was a fan of the music, and his best friend, right, like, as they was getting ready to start shooting the movie... passed. Passed, yeah. And he had Paramount Studios reach out to me to try to play a specific- the best friend role in Transformers. They kind of emulated who his best friend was in real life. He told Paramount [...] "reach out to Tobe and if he send anything back that's even halfway decent... I want to use him." But because I had never done no acting ever in my life, I just had this script right here, and just read it like I was acting, and just recorded myself on the iPhone and I was like, "yo there's no way in hell..." [...] I did that, sent that in, and they liked it!"—Tobe Nwigwe, Sway's Universe, 2023/01/23

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Interviews

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