{"id":1170178,"date":"2021-12-29T17:19:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T22:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1170178"},"modified":"2021-12-29T17:19:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T22:19:50","slug":"ice-cube-says-chris-tucker-turned-down-10-to-12-million-for-friday-sequel-due-to-religious-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ice-cube-says-chris-tucker-turned-down-10-to-12-million-for-friday-sequel-due-to-religious-beliefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Cube Says Chris Tucker Turned Down $10 to $12 Million for \u2018Friday\u2019 Sequel Due To Religious Beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fice-cube-says-chris-tucker-turned-down-10-to-12-million-for-friday-sequel-due-to-religious-beliefs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1170178&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>If you\u2019re wondering why you haven\u2019t seen Chris Tucker, star of nineties blockbusters like \u201cJackie Brown\u201d and the \u201cRush Hour\u201d action franchise, on the big screen lately, Ice Cube may have just offered an explanation.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper said on Twitter Wednesday that he offered Tucker a huge payday to reprise the role of Smokey in a sequel to the hit 1995 comedy, \u201cFriday,\u201d but the comedian passed for the sake of his religious convictions. \u201cWe were ready to pay Chris Tucker $10-12m to do \u2018Next Friday\u2019 but he turned us down for religious reasons. He didn\u2019t want to cuss or smoke weed on camera anymore,\u201d Ice Cube said.<\/p>\n<p>According to a YouTube documentary on the channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4p-tnR9ARlQ&amp;app=desktop\">Comedy Hype<\/a> and Tucker\u2019s own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7SV1K_K4X8w\">stand-up sets<\/a>, the one-time highest-paid actor in the world was raised in a Pentecostal household, and his parents regularly took him to church. He wandered away from the faith once his comedy career took off, but when he moved back to Atlanta in the late nineties, he became a born-again Christian. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/pop-culture\/2016\/03\/where-you-at-chris-tucker\">Various<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/chris-tucker-movies-after-rush-hour-what-happened\/\">reports<\/a> hold that at that point he became much more selective about the roles he accepted. Among the films he is rumored to have turned down \u2014 \u201cAny Given Sunday\u201d and \u201cLethal Weapon 4.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a 2014 interview with the Canadian newspaper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straight.com\/arts\/90221\/faith-keeps-chris-tuckers-comedy-clean\">Straight<\/a>, he revealed that his faith led him to return to his first professional love, stand-up comedy, though his act is different now than it was in his early days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing a Christian helps me in comedy. I have to talk about other stuff,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cNormally, most comics talk about stuff that\u2019s easy\u2014maybe cussing or saying something raunchy. I have to dig deeper to find something that\u2019s still funny and not raunchy. It\u2019s harder. I like the challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tucker\u2019s faith has also led him to buck the typical left-wing talking points of his industry. In 2018, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ux4EMzz7TbA\">told<\/a> Piers Morgan on \u201cGood Morning Britain\u201d that he wanted then-President Donald Trump to do a \u201cgood job\u201d and that he regularly prayed for him.<\/p>\n<p>Social media users generally seemed impressed with Tucker\u2019s decision to forgo continued stardom in order to stand by his convictions, with Forbes contributor Brian Mazique <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UniqueMazique\/status\/1476290935227092995?s=20\">replying<\/a>, \u201cRESPECT.\u201d Pop-culture pundit Kinsey Schofield <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kinseyschofield\/status\/1476262813857239043?s=20\">joked<\/a>: \u201cI wish I had that kind of discipline. I love Jesus but I could buy a lot of lipo with that kind of money.\u201d And sports reporter Jason Jones <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mr_jasonjones\/status\/1476289134675120129?s=20\">said<\/a>, \u201cCrazy thing is I thought folks knew this already.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few people made jokes about Tucker being named during Ghislaine Maxwell\u2019s trial as someone who once flew on financier Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s private jet, but it should be noted that the actor was apparently accompanying Epstein on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7865403\/Lolita-Express-air-hostess-Epstein-accuser-speaks-Africa-flight-Bill-Clinton.html\">humanitarian aid trip<\/a> to Africa. There have been no allegations or evidence that Tucker participated in any of the sexual activities that resulted in scandals and charges for other Epstein associates.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re wondering why you haven\u2019t seen Chris Tucker, star of nineties blockbusters like \u201cJackie Brown\u201d and the \u201cRush Hour\u201d action franchise, on the big screen lately, Ice Cube may have just offered an explanation. The rapper said on Twitter Wednesday that he offered Tucker a huge payday to reprise the role of Smokey in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}