Katt Williams Tells Ice Cube He Won’t Do ‘Last Friday’ If Faizon Love Is In It — Then Names One Condition
Katt Williams pulled up on Ice Cube and Mike Epps for the November 13 episode of their “Listen & Laugh” podcast, and when the conversation turned to casting “Last Friday” — the long-awaited fourth “Friday” movie — Williams drew a hard line about Faizon Love.
Love played Big Worm in the original “Friday” in 1995. Williams played Money Mike in “Friday After Next” in 2002. When Epps raised Love’s name, Williams mocked the comedian’s financial troubles, retelling a court story in which, in Williams’ telling, Love owes $250,000 in child support on $2,500 payments that were never made — and testified that he owns nothing and lives with a roommate who pays the bills.
“I laughed until I cried throughout his whole testimony,” Williams said.
Cube didn’t co-sign the shots. He told Love directly, through the camera, that he still has love for him and that a role in “Last Friday” is still available. Williams answered with the line that has been running all over social media since the episode dropped:
“Hey, by the way, if you’re in it, I’m not.”
But the ultimatum wasn’t Williams’ final word. Before the interview ended, he eased off it: as coverage of the episode’s closing stretch notes, Williams said he would sign on if actress K.D. Aubert returns — even if Love is cast as well. Aubert played Donna in “Friday After Next,” Williams’ own entry in the franchise, so his condition is a reunion of his own making: bring back his co-star, and Money Mike can live with Big Worm.
The casting debate lands while “Last Friday” is taking real steps forward. The franchise has not added a movie since “Friday After Next” in 2002. Director Lawrence Lamont has joined after making “One Of Them Days,” Cube and Epps said in Long Beach on July 17 that they had submitted the screenplay, and California included New Line’s “Last Friday” in its October 7 production-tax-credit awards, identifying Cube as the film’s star, writer and producer. Cube has also said — including in a November 11 “Club Shay Shay” appearance — that returning characters need to serve the story rather than show up simply because people want to see them again.
Which makes Williams’ condition more than a joke at Love’s expense. Cube has to build a cast that serves the story, Williams has now told him publicly what it takes to get Money Mike in the room, and the whole culture is watching to see which call Cube makes.
Source: “Listen & Laugh” with Ice Cube and Mike Epps (November 13 episode); reporting by AllHipHop.
