'Rape is never funny': Katt Williams reveals the reason why he removed a scene from 'Friday After Next'

Katt Williams said he insisted to the filmmakers that 'Friday After Next' would be better without the scene after making the request to omit it
PUBLISHED JAN 4, 2024
Katt Williams made his big-screen debut as Money Mike in the 2002 stoner-comedy sequel (Instagram@kattwilliams and YouTube/MovieClips)
Katt Williams made his big-screen debut as Money Mike in the 2002 stoner-comedy sequel (Instagram@kattwilliams and YouTube/MovieClips)

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Katt Williams has revealed the reason why he removed a scene from 'Friday After Next.'

During an interview on the 'Club Shay Shay' podcast which aired Wednesday, January 3, the actor and comedian who made his big-screen debut as Money Mike in the 2002 stoner-comedy sequel, said he persuaded the studio to omit a scene in which his character is sexually assaulted.



 

What did Katt Williams say?

"The problem with 'Friday After Next' is we're trying to make a classic comedy, and this comedy involves a rape, and rape is never funny, no matter who it happens to, or what the circumstances are," said the 52-year-old of the film, which was directed by Marcus Raboy and written by Ice Cube, the latter of whom also reprised his starring role of Craig Jones, Decider reports.


 
 
 
 
 
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Williams also said on the podcast that he "had to take the risk in front of the studios and the cast and the power 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 recalled.


 
 
 
 
 
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Katt Williams thought that the movie would be better without that scene

Williams said he insisted to the filmmakers that 'Friday After Next' would be better without the scene after making the request to omit it. "'If you would allow me to allow us to do this movie without a Black man getting raped in it, I promise you that it will be twice as funny as it would be with him getting raped,'" he said.


 
 
 
 
 
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The original 'Friday' followed Ice Cube's character Craig and Chris Tucker's character Smokey, two friends who smoke marijuana on a Friday from a local dealer (Faizon Love) that Smokey was supposed to sell. The dealer threatens to kill Craig and Smokey if they don't pay him back for what they used by the end of the night.

Williams appeared in 'Friday After Next', the third film in the series that follows Craig and his cousin Daymond (Mike Epps) on another adventure on Christmas Eve. The 'Friday' sequels made for some of Epps' first major roles in Hollywood, after he made his debut in 1997's 'Strays.'

Even though Epps, 53, wasn't in the 1995 original 'Friday', he joined for the second and third films, 'Next Friday' (2000) and 'Friday After Next.' During a recent episode of People, the actor and comedian said he spoke with Ice Cube, 54, about a plan to recreate the beloved comedy franchise as a stage play to tour around the country.

"The last person I texted was Ice Cube. He wants to do the movie 'Friday'; he wants to go out on tour, like as a play," Epps said, when asked about the last famous person he texted. Of Ice Cube, Epps added, "He's trying to get Chris Tucker to do church stuff in it, and Katt Williams ... [It's] a little crazy, but if we can find these two dudes and get them in it, it'll be really good."

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