John Witherspoon: Everyone Got $5K for 'Friday', Chris Tucker Not Coming Back (Part 6)

so you go and do boomerang and you know there's a few more movies in between there I mean there's vampire in Brooklyn there that's my favorite movie oh really yeah it was one of my favorite Wes Craven was a director right oh man he's just with don't you read the script one day he said y'all let me but you should read the script I'm sorry well vampire in Brooklyn came right around the same time yeah but in 1995 Friday yeah we did Friday we which your most famous role you think Friday um yeah kids you know comics kids felling coming to that Friday mold and they love Friday even today they love Friday they love right well I guess when when the movie was coming together the the movie cost two million dollars two million dollar we got paid five thousand dollars apiece to do that movie right and I guess I he was gonna put up the money himself right but New Line Cinema talked him out they said look you know since you losing two million on it the movie bomb we did take the hit movie grow three hundred million he could have gotten all that and they're not going to come back and say we made a look we made a lot of money gonna give you on the bonus things on [ __ ] they don't happen to Hollywood okay so you made $5,000 five grand everybody else one assumes they gonna say they made more money anybody made no money on that blue okay five thousand the Chris Tucker do do about the same you think about the same thing about the same yeah did I skip have but I mean ice even had some sort of ownership so he had royalties we hear him he had ownership he and DJ Pooh Rosa movie he used his production company cube vision of engineer okay so he go get more money then you get more money when you do the second one okay well it's the second one when you guys put together Friday and I guess the whole thing was shot in twenty days which is not everything tion 22 do you have any idea what you had on your hands no they didn't know I had to pay my rent I don't give a damn what it was it was $5,000 I had five grand pay my rent I've been honey and 30s I'm down I'd pay to buy I paid about three C I just paid my rent six months ahead okay so I if I'm broke I still can't have a place to go home and sleep that's what I used to do when I first started six months ahead it wasn't let what waiting but about thousand dollars the written was so low then well I mean this movie is in most people's top fives only love is like Asian is a lived we're live I think I've watched that movie more than any other movie honestly but we added all these comics you've got all these comics working you got Chris Tucker you got me you got blood first Friday we blew you wasn't Katt Williams wasn't there no Mike Epps wasn't there but he was tiny tiny tiny funny made it was there funny it like we had was named Bo the crackhead I was the AJ AJ AJ Jamal that's the name right AJ Johnson AJ Johnson Edie Johnson Johnson yeah he's funny no I mean the whole thing your wife yeah Regina Hall we do daughter Gina King Regina King yes I really came my bad um although people were in there all I'm at lived and we had been able to do an IceCube script was easy to to embellish on he had a great script he and DJ pool and uh oh wait overall we had macaroni all that stuff in Suffern we created when I'm right there - we only seen and we started a living okay and if they they don't like it they tell you okay cut it out don't say that say if you can say this and we do it three times different you do this this one time this way this way this way this way and that's how we got it pick out what they liked the best so what happened with Chris Tucker and his involvement Friday he'd make him deeply meet Jackie Chan with that Russia I'm a bigot 20 million I wouldn't go back to Friday either so that was it was just a money thing oh it's all about money oh but but obviously he would have gotten him you know it's not like he's gonna get five thousand to do next Friday at this point I got four hundred thousand for the second one yeah okay so he would have gotten probably even more do you private got him oh yeah but it was everyone know 25 20 Mille Miglia okay so are you gonna do it gonna get three pit to deal with 20 million each she would have been right there with him right did money talks afterwards also before the Jackie Chan movies before Russia when they talk that's another mother he did right yeah they started I've got big butts on that with Charlie Sheen yeah I got big mess on that yeah there you go okay so at that point he's just making so much money he'll he'll go back to no Fred plus he got religious and they said you know in this they don't smoke weed they don't want kids smoking weed see so he say they smoking weed and really and the preachers got to him and say you can't you can't be in a movie wedding smoking weed and stuff now weed is legal yeah now you want to go back but now he got another job with Jackie Chan again okay so is he coming back and do another Friday I don't think they come back I don't know are you doing another Friday if they do it I would you know cause I talk to you Q but he talked to Warner Brothers and say they gonna do it they were Dave you're up for it yeah want to do it so I don't know I do I be there because I need that people I bet you know and all the fans wanted to they faint one I guess so I think I get so sick of this on the road boarding you gonna do another Friday and Airport oh my god well you know because I've watched all the Friday's but I don't think any of them had the magic of the first one yeah the first one was um would the first one what I was second when they should never move that the neighborhood stated yeah do if it ain't broke don't fix it yeah man well I'm hoping another Friday with Christine oh I hope it happens also yeah you know what it's amazing about it i'ma tell you the reason they're not gonna make another 4th Friday which is gonna be called last Friday they're not gonna make one right for two million dollars uh-uh that ain't gonna happen cuz everybody's not broke we're not young we're not this and that they're not young and they're not gonna be doing I don't need to pay my rent I got mortgages now yeah so I don't need all that you know and Friday wasn't the only thing that helped me I worked on I got other job ahead job before Friday I'm job that's a Friday but I love doing Friday people love that movie oh well her party's on Friday put on Friday

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Length: 6min 36sec (396 seconds)

Published: Mon May 07 2018