Ice cube says he Didn't rob Faizon or other Actors on "Friday"

[Xyrax]

John Witherspoon (Pops, RIP) said he got paid $5K for the first Friday:


He says he made $400,000 on the second Friday:



And then he says he got paid $1m for the last Friday:




But Witherspoon talked about how he took the first part just to pay rent. Then built it up to that 1 million dollar paycheck with the last movie. Thats a total of $1,405,000. Some of these nikkas need to be humble and take the opportunity to build something instead of hustling backwards. Witherspoon got pennies for the first movie too, but he turned it into a big total earnings in the end. Thats whats up.

I mean, its not movie STAR money, but its a fukking living man.

 

[skokiaan]

difference between an entitled and someone who understands how to play the game.

Have seen many extremely talented people miss out coz of that sense of entitlement ...talent is good but workrate (seeing the bigger picture)is better

 

[5n0man]

John Witherspoon (Pops, RIP) said he got paid $5K for the first Friday:


He says he made $400,000 on the second Friday:



And then he says he got paid $1m for the last Friday:




But Witherspoon talked about how he took the first part just to pay rent. Then built it up to that 1 million dollar paycheck with the last movie. Thats a total of $1,405,000. Some of these nikkas need to be humble and take the opportunity to build something instead of hustling backwards. Witherspoon got pennies for the first movie too, but he turned it into a big total earnings in the end. Thats whats up.

I mean, its not movie STAR money, but its a fukking living man.

Me and my wife went to his stand up not long before he passed and after the set he stayed and answered some questions from the crowd. All of this was facts, he said that he got around $6k for the first Friday but the boost to his career was priceless.

 

[old pig]

You don't even have to go that far.

Deebo is even more iconic than big worm.

“deebo” is even used as a damn verb to this day

 

[Supa]

Friday - Rated R

Rush Hour - PG-13

 

[Amare's Right Hook]

Big Worm is an iconic role?
Nicca was in like 2 scenes

Spinoff on Netflix

 

[Rocket Scientist]

There is an NFL player named Deebo

 

[Stick Up Kid]

I get ice cube point but the movie was unintentionally beyond successful and it would’ve been the right thing to do to help those actors after doing so well. I read somewhere it made over half a Billie, that’s amazing, a $20k check for the cast would’ve been more than enough

nikka, 500M is StarWars type shyt

Friday grossed 121M

 

[Stick Up Kid]

Big Worm is an iconic role?
Nicca was in like 2 scenes

Cac Alert

 

[Stick Up Kid]

Hell naw


In that case Bruh Man from the 5th floor and Sam Jackson as the robber in Coming to America are iconic

Tell me ur a cac without tellin me ur a cac

 

[Jasmine20]

I just realized Nia Long never appeared in any Friday sequels either. Why is that??

Chris Tucker is weird for these excuses. If you don't F with Ice Cube just say that. Lol

 

[Zero]

20k out of whose pockets? Cube's? The director's?

Faizon agreed to 2500. The man had a few lines in the movie so why is he getting $20k?

Felicia getting $20k too for a bit part?

They didn't write, produce, edit or do any behind the scenes work so they don't get paid more. They don't get back end money because it's not in their contracts.

Actors take roles in low budget movies to hopefully raise their profile and get more roles. They want a bigger payday tell their agent to find their next project.

This is how the business works. Stop acting like people gotta hook somebody up outside of what's negotiated.

It's the unfair standards for black film makers because I swear if this was a white owned production company you wouldn't hear a peep from the film makers or the actors involved as they wouldn't want to upset Hollywood

Anyone with 2 eyes can see what Friday was. A low budget film that way overdid production cost. There were many films like that, that didn't pop. That one just happened to strike gold. Actors in those positions should know that not much money is coming from that but the hopes is to get the exposure for more opportunities which happened for a lot of the Actors in that film. I agree with cube he didn't rob anyone. You just got people coming back in hindsight wishing cube hooked them up on the "brotha man brotha man" shyt but none of them would have demanded that from a white company.

Yall both said it. nikkas stay wanting a hookup from other black folks

 

[Rembrandt]

“deebo” is even used as a damn verb to this day

Exactly. Big worm wasn't iconic at all

 

[DrunkenNovice]

SMH @ turning down $10 million talkin bout some church.

Bet the pastor was like "nikka WHAT! "

go get me my……I mean the lords 10%

 

[BrothaZay]

What's Yall definition of iconic? Because Friday definitely has better known characters than anyone in color purple