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Rapper/actor Ice Cube isn’t one for nonsense.
Faizon Love, who portrayed Big Worm Friday, recently revealed in an interview with Comedy Hype that he was only paid $2,500 for his role. A Twitter user accused Ice Cube of “robbing his own people” for Love’s amount when the interview emerged online. Ice Cube swiftly rejected the claims.
“I didn’t rob no f****n body,” the Compton native tweeted.
He continued.
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“The 1995 Friday movie cost $2.3m to make. Shot it in 20 days. Fazion worked 1 day, maybe 2. All the actors got paid scale to do the movie. They could’ve simple said “No” but they didn’t. So miss me with that sh*t.”
The comedian didn’t accuse Jackson of “robbing him,” however, he stated that he wouldn’t return to the film’s series due to the little pay he received.
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“If Cube said, ‘Faizon, there’s no money. This is something I need you to do.’ I’d have to do it on GP because he’s the one who got me into the game in the first place,” the 53-year-old shared.
Love was offered the same role in the film’s sequel Next Friday for $5,000. However, the comedian declined.
Another Twitter user mentioned the rumor that actor Chris Tucker quit money. Ice Cube shot the rumor down as well.
“We were ready to pay Chris Tucker $10-12m to do Next Friday but he turned us down for religious reasons,” the rapper tweeted. “He didn’t want to cuss or smoke weed on camera anymore.”
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In an interview in November, Tucker told All Urban Central that he walked away from the franchise because of those reasons.
“Back then, I gotta tell you, one of the reasons why I didn’t do the second one was because of the weed,” Tucker stated.
He continued.
“That movie became a phenomenon. I don’t want everybody smoking weed and I never really told people this because I kind of forgot about it, but it was one of the reasons why I didn’t do it. Because I said, ‘I don’t wanna represent everybody smoking weed.’”
Tucker has yet to respond to Ice Cube’s tweets.
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