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Friday, November 22. 2002
ACCIU
THE
'Friday After Next
Ice Cube's newest 'Friday' movie opens tok
Courtesy of KRT - Me. Cube. Just chillin’ in
a Jewish delicatessen in West Hollywood.
Ice Cube has built up a serious appetite dur
ing a hectic morning that began early wdth an
appearance with an overstimulated happy news
crew at a local television station — one of the
anchors rightfully said Cube was too cool for
the room — and ended with a stop at a popular
radio station.
The rapper-actor-writer- producer-director,
whose new holiday-themed movie, Friday After
Next, opens this Friday (not next Friday or the
Friday after next), orders two lunches. His
burly bodyguard, sitting across the aisle at his
own table, orders the same.
Cube (that’s what friends and reporters are
asked to call him) is promoting his movie in
every way imaginable. He’s doing newspaper
interviews, magazine interviews, television
interviews, radio interviews, personal appear
ances on hip TV shows and even personal
appearances on not-so- hip TV shows.
The Friday franchise is a lucrative one — the
first two. Friday and Next Friday, have generat
ed about $200 million in revenue — but there
are even higher expectations for the third
installment, and the reason is Barbershop.
That film, which Cube starred in and pro
duced. came out of nowhere a few months ago
to make about $80 million at the box office, or
nearly seven times what it cost to make.
It also sparked a Hurry of negative publicity
when civil rights leaders attacked a scene in the
movie in which a barber (played by Cedric the
Entertainer) makes fun of the Rev. Martin
Luther King. Rosa Parks and other icons of the
civil rights movement.
“It was a non-issue." an unsmiling Cube said
between bites of a chicken finger dipped in bar
becue sauce. "It was much ado about nothing.
It was a fictional character in a fictional movie.
I think some people are taking themselves too
seriously. I learned that if you take yourself too
seriously, nobody else will.”
Although Cube began his acting career on a
serious note and has continued wdth dramatic
work (Three Kings, Anaconda, Trespass), he is
better known for his comedies, which include
the two Friday movies and The Flayers Club,
his directorial debut.
He also produces many of his films through
his production company, Cube Vision
I he rapper-mogul said he has nopref* 1
as to w hat kinds of movies he will pi. f
duvet, write or star in after Frida?
•1 like to watch comedies,dramasaJ
nun .es, so I want to do those kinds of J
Nobody wants to hear me talkingaboniJ
m - to be a serious dramatic actor. TlieyS
want to like my movies when theyconi
After the tremendous success of the U
Friday mov ies, a third was inevitable.
Since " was supposed tocomeoetaj
the holidays. Cube (mured a Christma^l
might be appropriate. 1
" 1 here has never been a Christmas®,
about the hood.” he said. "All Iveever^
l ast Coast Christmas movies with little ns
kids playing in the snow. That hasnothir,
w ith w hat I remember about Christma>
”1 thought we could kill two birdsrt*
stone by giving people a different view if
Christmas and. at the same time,givetk
Friday franchise a paint job.”
In hriday After Next, which Cubew®
produced, he and his cousin (played by fie
Fpps) get jobs as security guards inabrcte
dow n mall after a thief dressed as SantaCa
breaks into their apartment and robs their.
Along the way. they meet upwiththei
Friday assortment of strange characters*
inhabit the 'hood.
In fact. Cubes comedies often poke fa
members of his ow n ethnic group.
“Nobody really escapes the humor,"tie\
"That’s w hat makes it OK: it’s not one-sided!
make fun of everyone. All I worn about is
it’s fimny. Fm not try ing to do social comrEr
"As for why I do so many jokes aboti
pie in the hood, 1 think it s easier forst
to make jokes about his own communitu
out it being considered offensive.
"Jewish comedians can make jokes ah::
Jewish people without someone thinking
anti-Semitic. Italian comedians candotks
w ith Italian people. And people whoma):-
of their own do it the best because they!
their own people the best. Stereotypes be;:
stereotypes because there is anelemenu
in them.
"What we laugh about in these movie,
same stuff that usually makes us cry.
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Mike Epps, left, and Ice Cube star in the newest Friday movie, Friday After Next,
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November 22 and 23
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