Snoop Dogg Says Jonathan Daviss Is "The Whole Thing" in Upcoming Biopic

West Coast legend Snoop Dogg has no doubt he made the right decision by choosing Jonathan Daviss. Snoop's face lit up on the BET Awards red carpet when he was asked about the young star pegged to play him in his forthcoming biopic. "Jonathan is that whole thing, man," he told Entertainment Tonight. "He's a dynamic actor, he's a great spirit, and he's a student. He can borrow something and make it better."

With his best-known role as Pope Heyward on Netflix's Outer Banks, Daviss is filling big shoes. But if the task daunts the up-and-comer, that doesn't seem to be the case: The next-bit-thing has all the heart and humility to tackle the task. "Getting to play a character like Dogg, man, he's an icon, you know," Daviss said. "But I really do want to get underneath who he was as a man, as a loving man, and why people are drawn to him."

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It's that human touch that Snoop says drew him to it. More than his talent, the way Daviss personally connected to people close to him did him in. "To have him around me and to see the way he engulfs spirit, and the way that my family just craves him but a beautiful thing," Snoop said. "Just to be able to have someone that can do you justice while you're still and here able to see it."

Universal Pictures is now set to make the untitled biopic, directed by Hustle & Flow and Coming 2 America director Craig Brewer. It is also the first official feature released under the Death Row Pictures' new partnership with NBCUniversal. The film will follow Snoop's life and career, starting with his upbringing in Long Beach, his booming rise in the early '90s on the West Coast rap scene, and his membership in Dr. Dre's groundbreaking collective, Death Row Records, and later, his unofficial position as the successor to NWA's legacy, making him a household name and a pivotal player in music, politics, and society, over 30 years.

Snoop also appears beyond the action, but he's a producer on the show along with Brian Grazer and Sara Ramaker, president of Death Row Pictures.

As for Daviss, he's keeping level through such a process, taking in as much as he can from the man himself. It's a process, and I've just been learning and growing," he said. "I got a great teacher."

There's no release date as of now, but with the backing of the swagger god Snoop Dogg and a go-getter of a newcomer enacting it, this is one story fans cannot miss.