Ice Cube Clarifies Katt Williams’ Assertion on Removing ‘Friday After Next’ Rape Scene
Katt Williams made news after attacking several celebrities on Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast, including claims about attempting to have a rape scene removed from “Friday After Next.”
Ice Cube has now responded on X, producing a 9-minute video disputing Williams’ claim about the supposed scene. Williams alleged on Club Shay Shay that the original script contained a rape scene in the bathroom involving his character, Money Mike, and Terry Crews’ character, Damon, but he insisted on its removal.
“The problem with Friday After Next is we’re trying to make a classic comedy,” Williams said on the podcast, “and this comedy involves a rape, and rape is never funny no matter who it happens to or what the circumstances are.”
The comedian insisted that he told filmmakers, “If you would allow me, allow us to do this movie without a Black man getting raped in it. I promise you it will be twice as funny.”
Williams asserted that he took a significant career risk by standing up to higher authorities to have the scene removed.
“Katt Williams had to take the risk in front of the studios and the cast and the powers that be, in his very first movie, and say, ‘Respectfully, humbly, guys, if we’re talking about anything else, I have no credibility and I have no pull, but we’re talking about comedy, where I have all the credibility and all the pull,'” he said.
Ice Cube, the scriptwriter, aimed to clarify Williams’ remarks.
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“I would never shoot a rape scene in a movie, especially like Friday,” he said. “That ain’t my style. If you check out any of my movies, they’re not raunchy. We did a movie called The Players Club. The subject matter is a little raunchy but for the most part even that we left it to your imagination.”
“The plier joke [in Friday After Next] was always in the script. We would never, ever show that. That’s not my style if you look at any of my movies. So, that was never a discussion.”
“We do what we feel,” he continued, “and if it was a rape scene it woulda been in the movie. There was no reason not to shoot it. But that’s not my style. I don’t even like that kind of s**t in movies. And so, that was, to me, a little discrepancy there.”
Williams asserted that he wrote his character’s lines, a claim mostly confirmed by Cube, who praised Williams for his impactful performance, noting that the role expanded due to Williams’ on-point delivery and preparation.
“The role was written, but he enhanced it, which is why Katt was so dope in the movie,” Cube said. “Money Mike had a small role, about as big as the Santa Claus role, but when we started filming, he was giving so much magic that we kept expanding the role, and giving him more to do because he was on point.”
Ice Cube Clarifies Katt Williams’ Assertion on Removing ‘Friday After Next’ Rape Scene
