Friday is Friday because of Chris Tucker. Ice Cube: Even Pooh will tell you that Chris blew that shit out the water. Ultimately it was the best move. DJ Pooh: Red was such a smaller role than Smokey. But it was dope, it was perfect. He was right. And every actor that we went out to get, we basically got.
Anna Maria Horsford: I was doing Amen at the time. So, by default, I got it. I know, I know. I used to get real death threats from the white world. They saw this big black guy from Compton and Vince McMahon promoted that I was a killer and a gangster. Zeus was larger than life. I was the biggest black character actor in Hollywood but I had to prove it to Pat Charbonnet, who was producing the movie with Ice Cube.
Me and Nia Long went in together. It took Gary Gray to make sure I got the role, because he knew the influence I already had. He knew how powerful and famous I was. Gary Gray: I fought for [Tiny] because his audition was off. Some of the stuff the producers were concerned about was stuff I was concerned about. There were some people that were nervous about what he would deliver. I was nervous about that, but Tiny is from Compton, big as hell, and he understands the culture. Faizon Love: Back then, I hated auditioning.
When I came in the door, I was Big Worm, smoking a joint and talking shit. Her feet were fucking gorgeous, I just wanted to fuck her feet.
I was talking about how gorgeous her feet were. Kim Hardin: There was a whole thing with Mrs. Parker, who lives across the street and waters her lawn. Kim Hardin: I was so glad [Cube and Gary] liked her. She was perfect. She came in for Gary and he really wanted her to accentuate, just bend down low. I was like, really?! Gary Gray: I know we picked the right person.
Kim Hardin: Then the midget! I brought him in for the audition, he did good. Cube called me up and said he and DJ Pooh had a part for me in this movie. He asked if I wanted to play a crackhead.
He liked to give his notes to the casting director to redirect to the actor. We still gave her the part. That was her first speaking role in a film. In one of my classes, Meagan later said she was thankful that I protected her from having to curse at her age for her first movie.
I felt like tearing up and shit. We was just paying our rent, to tell you the truth. Patricia Charbonnet: The moment Gary walked on that set—even during pre-production and casting—he was a consummate professional at a very young age. With the atmosphere of clowning and fooling around, Gary was a serious anchor, like an old soul who knew that, in spite of all this camaraderie, there was a film that had to be delivered at the end of the day, and his neck was on the line.
We absolutely, unequivocally believed in him and his ability to pull it off, which is why we chose him as director.
You have just so much energy crackling, and at age 24 Gary had an astounding ability to steer that ship to shore.
Gary Gray: I was totally nervous, I had 20 days to shoot a movie. Patricia Charbonnet: How are we going to get it done and delivered to New Line in 20 days, not really having any money? This was an extremely low-budget film at the time. A lot of money was spent on food trucks, food stations. We fed them right. There was no money made on that.
It was all fun and getting to know each other. We were deep in the hood, too. Pretty much all of the clothes came from the Slauson Swap Meet. Tell Cube I rap.
Back in the day, dudes used to go get perms. Prince had the same perm. Billy Dee had a perm in Star Wars. Lionel Richie had a perm. Then I wore mine, like I was going to have one of the great perms. Somebody gotta bring it back.
It was like a rolling billboard for Los Angeles. Our transportation person tracked it down because we thought it was a car that a guy who sells weed and rolls with rollers in his hair would drive. Something with so much personality captured who Big Worm was immediately.
He was from the neighborhood. He later sold that car to Japan. Then Blaze got murdered. We shot in South Central, and being born and bred a South Central girl, I was sensitive to neighborhoods.
I told my transportation guy to find this broken-down car off of Western Avenue, find who owns it, and put it on a flatbed, or tow it to the block. I loved it because it was a convertible Pinto—probably the only one that existed on planet Earth. That car never drove right. All the guys pushed it during the scenes it was in. The engine sputtering? All sound effects. That shit should be in a museum right now. I did that in post-production. Chris just waved and I put an alarm sound effect on that.
I thought it would be funny if those piece of shit cars had alarms on them. One of the reasons why my mom moved away from there was when crack started taking over.
We saw some of our neighbors get into that world. I liked styling [Angela Means as Felisha] because she was a challenge as far as making her look bad; I had to turn this gorgeous girl into someone that was not so hot. But Gary would still say she looked too pretty. I was like, how do I this? Gary Gray: We shot it in South Central, so there was gonna be a lot of gang activity, but there was really only one neighbor who was an asshole, the kind who would scream during some of the takes.
For the most part everybody was respectful. Angela Means: We were rolling with Cube, who was hip-hop royalty. It was lovely. Fuck you, motherfucker! This is my neighborhood!
This is my house! Fuck you! His poor wife was so embarrassed. I would ride the bicycle and chase the fans around—it would be like fans around the set every day. It might be up to a thousand sometimes. The audience loved us so much. They played like I was the baddest guy in the world.
They knew we loved them and they gave us love back. It was beautiful, but at the same time you keep your eyes open. There were fans around us who were just as bad as Deebo for real! John Witherspoon: We had the Crips gang on the outskirts there. They were kids and they were nice and we all took pictures with them. Johnson: The Crips were all cool. We were out all night, and they were out all night with us.
The whole neighborhood was out. They see something funny and when they say cut, they all started laughing. Gary Gray: We had a couple of drive-bys around the corner but not on our set. Get your mom to sign the papers and come down here. Faizon Love: Chris was like my little brother. We drove to set together. We had a little raggedy Jetta that we shared. We would smoke weed on the way. It was so cute. I was shooting Friday at the time, and Chris Tucker and I saw each other on the freeway, on the way to the set.
I was going [Waves, imitates honking. DJ Pooh: It never felt like work, we were just having a good time. Chris and I shared a trailer. It was like part of the movie. Me and Chris flipped our shit. You have to. The blonde dookie braids became popular and, Lord, those nails. I did the nails, I created those and put those on. I was just young and inspired. Patricia Charbonnet: Probably the person who worked the hardest was the script supervisor when it came to lines.
John Witherspoon always said his lines one way, then the next day he said them another way, then the next day he said it a different way. Actors like Chris Tucker were allowed to display their own comedic skills. Gary Gray: A one-page scene could stretch to two pages after all the ad-libbing.
Then you end up having a four-hour movie. Patricia Charbonnet: Chris Tucker was like an electrical storm, every single day. He was also a difficult person for the script supervisor. When he went into improv, he was unstoppable, so the pressure was on and stuff had to be rewritten all of the time since there was so much electricity flowing on set. When he would break out into an improvisational piece, or even John Witherspoon, Gary just managed all of those competing energies so well.
That shows you how on fire Chris was. Man, he knocked you out! So I was just trying to bring that to the screen, man, let people see that this is what goes down in the neighborhood everyday. The good side of South Central, not what they see on the news. DJ Pooh: They had a trampoline out there and some big heavy cushion bags that stunt guys normally fall on. So they do the [Deebo] punch and I jump back off the thing in the air and land on the bag. I got this! We did that scene about seven, eight times.
Ice Cube: Bernie was always the realest. The property has changed hands a number of times both before and after the filming of Friday. As you might expect with a property that has changed hands numerous times, both the interior and exterior have changed somewhat over the years. A comparison of how the house looked in above and below.
While the porch outside the house was the main focus of the movie, some scenes did take place inside. However, it appears the interior scenes were actually filmed on a set. It's was the Parkers house that had no grass. Stanley just told them to stay off his grass. Deebo guest. Your comment: Post comment. Similar places Nearby places Nearby cities.
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