Ice Cube confirms that Chris Tucker didn't appear in Next Friday due to religious reasons. Cube says Tucker 'didn’t want to cuss or smoke weed on camera anymore,' turning down a $10-$12 million paycheck for the movie.
Ice Cube has officially confirmed the reason that Chris Tucker didn't return for the comedy sequel Next Friday. The original Friday, which came out on April 26, 1995, followed Craig Jones , a man who gets fired and decides to smoke pot with his friend Smokey , inadvertently getting on the bad side of a notorious drug dealer in the process.
Chris Tucker, who had appeared in the meantime in hit films like Rush Hour, Jackie Brown, and The Fifth Element, didn't reprise the role of Smokey in Next Friday or its follow-up. Instead, his shoes were filled by the new character Day Day, played by Mike Epps. At the time, it wasn't officially confirmed why Chris Tucker was absent from the sequels, though after starring in the next two Rush Hour movies he dropped off the map, only appearing in 2 films after 2007.
We were ready to pay Chris Tucker $10-12m to do Next Friday but he turned us down for religious reasons. He didn’t want to cuss or smoke weed on camera anymore. https://t.co/1pfo1FHWzpIce Cube's comment confirms the theory that many have held about why Tucker didn't return to the franchise. The actor became a born-again Christian in 1997, which led him to become much pickier about the projects that he chose.
Even without Chris Tucker, Next Friday was a sizable success, raking in $60 million on a budget of $11 million. From the looks of things, if Tucker had signed on, that would have increased the budget, eating into a sizeable chunk of the profits. However, a Friday 2 with Chris Tucker may have also been a much bigger hit, so it's impossible to tell what could have been if he hadn't made the decision to opt out. .
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