“Ice Cube is Still Reveling in the Events that have just transpired. On April 15, The Trailblazing West Coast MC and Actor Left His Mark with A Hand and Footprint Ceremony Outside Storified Career. The Same Day, He Announced the”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Those who’ve been riding with Cube Since the LATE ’80S, WHEN NWA CAME OUT FIRING ON ALL CYLinders with 19888 Straight Outta Comptonhave bore witness to cube’s evolution from a young, Hungry gangsta rapper to a bona fide Movie Star, with Roles in Boyz n the hood, Barbershop, Friday an 21 Jump Street, to name a few. Friday Was Cube’s Screenwriting Debut and Became A Cult Classic and One of the most iconic stoner comedies of all Time.
Days Removed from The Honor and A Day After 4/20, Cube Spoke with The Hollywood Reporter On his time in the Entertainment Industry, The Long-Awaited Fourth Friday Film Last Friday and Addressing Deaths of the Movie’s Original Cast Members in the Upcoming Sequel.
I’m fortunate because i was discovered by John Singleton, and HE PUT ME IN A GREAT MOVIE AND A GREAT ROLE. But any time you’re coming from musical into the movie Industry, there’s Skepticism, Even Thought I DON’T KNOW WHY. Early Hollywood, You Have to Be Able To Sing, Dance, ACT AND TAP DANCE PROBABLY [laughs]. You have to do it all. But The Industry Still Kind of Makes You Go Through A Little Bit of Skepticism, So To Speak, WHEN YOU GET INTO IT from the Music Industry. SO Those Hurdles, The Hurdles of People’s Minds and Them Limiting Me in Their Own Mind. I HAD TO Let People Know That, For One, I Respect the Industry. There’s No Bigger Canvas Than A Movie Screen for Artists. I had to show that i respect the Industry and that i was a writer and a product and more than just an actor that was put in a movie by a Great Director.
The Next Friday Film, Last Friday, is finally coming. You’ve Lost Several of the Original Cast Members, Including Pops, Deebo and Ezal. How Will That Affect The Film?It’s Something You Have To Address. THESE Are Beloved People, Not Just Characters in A MOVIE, WE’RE TALKING About John Withrspoon (POPS), Tiny Lister (Deebo) and AJ Johnson (Ezal). We Got to Address It. But We Still Making A Movie and Still Making A Comedy, and Is Still Gonna Be Fun. IT’s People You Want To Kick It With. IT’s People You Want To Catch Up To and See What’s Going on. THEN THERE’S ROOM TO INTRODUCE NEW Characters. I always saw this like Star wars; People Can Pop in and Out Any Time.
I About revisiting a family that’s going Through it in 2025. It’s Really Catching Up.
Now, you know and can’t give you that much [laughs]. I Can’t Tell You That Much. I Like WHEN YOU’RE COOKING IN THE KITCHEN AND CAN’T nonobody come in the Kitchen if if they not cooked, so wait for your plate [laughs]. Smell It, But You Don’t Need to Taste It Yet.
I Think The Magic of MOVIES LIKE THIS IS IF YOU DON’T See The Punches Coming, You Just Enjoy The Movie Without Knowing Too Much. The fans, they already know it’s coming, so they already like, “Alright Cube.
There’s No Pressure Because i’m Working with The Best in the Business. With Each Movie You Do, You Have To Make It Good and Great. You Can’T Just Expect People To Spend their Time and Money on Something That’s Not Worth It. The Fun of Making People Laugh is Actual Working with Things in Current Times and People and Personalities that Draw Laughter, Some Reality, So You’re Gonna Have Fun.
What’s The Best Part About Getting to Bring this Film Back?
WHEN MAKING The FIRST FILLM, DID YOU THIS WOURT BECOME SUCH A CULT CLASSIC?
It Felt Like We Was Doing Something that Hollywood Kind of Cooned Out in A Way. There was a movie called CB4. IT LOOKED CLOSELY AT RAP INDUSTRY AND HARDCORE RAP. We have had movies like Boyz n the hood an Menace II Society. We have the trees hardcore movies about our neighborhood, but we never had a movie where we kind of laughed at the situations institute of Cry.
Chris Tucker’s Smokey Was A Big Part of the Original Film. Is he going to make any return?
He’s Always Invited. That’s all i can say.