Speak about being the larger individual! Filmmaker Allen Hughes is opening up about taking up the Pricey Mama documentary regardless of being brutally attacked by Tupac Shakur 30 years in the past.

Hughes’ five-part docuseries explores how Tupac and Afeni Shakur’s mother-son dynamic formed American historical past. Pricey Mama explores Afeni’s previous as a pacesetter within the Black Panther Occasion and the way it formed Tupac’s journey as a political visionary and his rap profession.

It took quite a bit for the Useless Presidents creator to conform to tackle the mission precisely three a long time after he was bodily attacked by Tupac and a bunch of gang members who have been indignant in regards to the rapper being fired from the cult-classic Menace II Society.

Hughes is now opening up about his change of coronary heart to work on a Tupac mission after the late rapper’s property reached out to him to direct the docuseries.

“I wasn’t certain if I wished to do it due to apparent private causes,” Hughes instructed AP.

In his interview with the Related Press, Hughes mentioned, “It takes quite a bit out of you doing documentaries, too — particularly if you happen to do it over the course of some years like we did this one. However as soon as I noticed that there wasn’t sufficient about Tupac that I didn’t understand, it may be higher to discover him by his mom and make it a twin narrative. The property and household have been down with that.

Tupac spent 15 days in jail for attacking Hughes, the LA Occasions stories. Hughes had little interest in reconciling with the rapper on the time regardless of his public apology.

However now, wanting again on the ordeal, Hughes admits how laborious it was to let go of the “trauma” after being attacked by over a dozen indignant males.

“It took just a few years for me to recover from it,” Hughes mentioned.

“Initially, I noticed the apology in real-time. I want I used to be man sufficient to have linked with him on the time. I’ve since seen all of the audiovisuals with him saying he was remorseful about it, which I by no means knew existed. However we have been youngsters. We have been all 19 when that occurred.”

“No, you need to by no means take it to the extent of violence, regardless of the misunderstanding is,” he continued. “However I’ve been in fist fights with my brother and recovered. Tupac cherished laborious. When he acquired indignant, it was laborious. I feel possibly with the trauma from being fully obliterated by 10-15 guys, it simply took quite a bit.”

Hughes’ “Pricey Mama” premiered Friday on FX, and the primary two episodes can be found to stream on Hulu.