Faizon Love & Michael Blackson Defend Ice Cube
Fans have take to Twitter to accuse Ice Cube of robbing actors by paying low wages for the Friday movie.
Fans referenced an interview where Faizon Love mentioned he was paid $2500 for his role as Big Worm in Friday. Ice Cube responded on Twitter saying “I didn’t rob no f***** body. The 1995 movie cost $2.3m to make. Shot it in 20 days. [Faizon] worked 1 day, maybe 2. All the actors got paid scale to do the movie. They could’ve simply said “No” but they didn’t. So miss me with that s***”
Faizon Love responded to the backlash by telling fans he considers Ice Cube a brother and refers to payment as the “price of admission to a game.”
Michael Blackson went on Twitter to say “@icecube is not to be blamed for us getting paid so little it’s the film industry’s pay scale. I got paid $800 a day when I did Next Friday plus overtime I made $1200 for my one day’s work of “I can’t get giggy with this s***” Thanks to next Friday I became the biggest African comic.”
