Ice Cube is reacting to remarks made by comic, author and star Katt Williams concerning the pay, spreading and a claimed rape scene in the Friday franchise business.
The rap artist and manufacturer required to X, the system previously called Twitter, on Friday to attend to a number of declarations made throughout Williams’ current interview on previous NFL celebrity Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast. In a nine-minute video clip, Ice Cube stated he had “a lot of love for Katt,” that “spoke up for me a lot,” yet he“wanted to be clear to clarify some things.”
That consists of refuting he would certainly movie a rape scene after Williams informed Sharpe that he had actually promoted the elimination of a sexual offense series from Friday After Following. “I would never shoot a rape scene in a movie, especially Friday, where you actually see this happening on camera. That ain’t my style,” Ice Cube stated.“The plier joke was always in the script. We would never ever show that. That’s not my style if you look at any of my movies. So, that was never a discussion.”
The scene Ice Cube referrals sees Williams’ pander Cash Mike collared in a washroom by Terry Crews’ Damon, a guy lately out of jail that has actually been lording over Craig (Ice Cube) and Day-Day (Mike Epps) for lease cash. Throughout his interview with Sharpe, Williams stated “Money Mike, in the original script, got raped in the bathroom”– something he supported must be reduced.
“The problem with Friday After Next is we’re trying to make a classic comedy, and this comedy involves a rape, and rape is never funny no matter who it happens to or what the circumstances are,” he stated. Williams included that he informed filmmakers that“if you would allow me, allow us to do this movie without a Black man getting raped in it, I promise you it will be twice as funny.”
The comic informed Sharpe his ask was “risky” as it was his extremely initial movie, yet stated he needed to “humbly, respectfully” demand the modification “in front of the studios and the cast and the powers that be.”
“If we’re talking about anything else, I have no credibility and I have no pull, but we’re talking about comedy, where I have all the credibility and all the pull,” he proceeded.
Ice Cube called this a “discrepancy” in exactly how he and Williams bore in mind points. “At that point in everybody’s career, we will listen to a certain extent, but we wasn’t gonna change the movie for it. For any actor, you know?” he stated in the video clip.“We do what we feel and if it was a rape scene, it would have been in the movie. There was no reason not to shoot it. But that’s not my style.”
Throughout his almost three-hour interview, Williams likewise dealt with those that have actually been vital of just how much they were paid to show up in the Friday franchise business, calling them “ungrateful bastards.”
“What do you mean the independent Black dude who’s filming it partly out of his fucking pocket — what do you mean he didn’t pay you enough?” he stated.
Ice Cube included in Williams’ action, keeping in mind that a lot of the allocate the Friday movies entered into the movie itself. “Most of these guys worked a couple of days. When you’re doing a movie, there’s over 100 people working on the movie that need to get paid. Most of them got to get paid every day. There’s pre-production and post-production. Even after you finish with the acting, you gotta pay editors and sound people in,” he stated.
“And my movies are all about quality, so most of the money go up on the screen,” he proceeded.“I’m not giving you low budget shit you can laugh at because it’s so cheap.”
At an additional factor in his nine-minute video clip, Ice Cube dealt with Williams’ composing credit ratings on the Friday threequel, after Williams informed Sharpe he had actually been come close to by the rap artist and manufacturer to compose a 4th installation. Without verifying Williams’ claim that he was asked to manuscript a brand-new phase, Ice Cube credit ratings Williams’ for boosting the function of Cash Mike that got on the web page.
“Money Mike had a small role, about as big as the Santa Claus role, but when we started filming, [Williams] was giving us such magic that we kept expanding his role and giving me more to do because he was on point,” he described.“But we shoot to script. Once we get what we need from the script, we let the comedians ad lib, riff, play with the words — do they thing. We give them two, three takes where they can go off and do what they feel.”
He likewise makes clear the background around spreading Williams as burglar Santa Claus in Friday After Following and Williams as pander Cash Mike. In 2022, Rickey , the comic that represented Friday After Following burglar Santa Claus informed the Pierre’s Panic Area podcast he “was supposed to be the pimp and Katt Williams was supposed to be the Santa Claus.”
Williams dealt with while speaking to Sharpe, informing the previous NFL gamer, “I can tell you this, we auditioned in Los Angeles. I was audition No. 201. Two hundred Black comedians auditioned for the role of Money Mike with me.”
“[Smiley] told everybody it should have been my role,” Williams included.“So considering that’s the real story, why would you bring up that story? Thirty-five members of the cast have never brought up that Rickey Smiley was going to play Money Mike.”
According to Ice Cube, “Ricky did give Money Mike a shot, but when we saw him and … how he moved and how he was auditioning, we decided that he would be a better Santa Claus, which was to me the perfect casting. When we saw Katt, when I saw him, I just knew that he was perfect for Money Mike.”
