(CNN)Ice Cube is explaining wherefore his "Friday" costar Chris Tucker reportedly turned down a hefty paycheck to prima successful the movie's sequel.
Tucker was offered $12 million, according to Ice Cube, to reprise his relation successful the movie, which followed the 1995 deed comedy, and 2 sequels 2000's "Next Friday" and 2002's "Friday After Next."
Ice Cube, who besides produced the movies, said Tucker didn't instrumentality to play Smokey due to the fact that of "religious reasons."
"We were acceptable to wage Chris Tucker $10-12m to bash Next Friday but helium turned america down for spiritual reasons. He didn't privation to cuss oregon fume weed connected camera anymore," Ice Cube tweeted. (A instrumentality had asked wherefore Tucker is not successful the movies.)
In a caller interrogation with All Urban Central, Tucker revealed it was due to the fact that of the weed smoking successful the movies.
"Back then, I gotta archer you, 1 of the reasons wherefore I didn't bash the 2nd 1 was due to the fact that of the weed," helium explained. "Because I said, man, that movie became a phenomenon. I don't privation everybody smoking weed — and I ne'er truly told radical this due to the fact that I benignant of forgot astir it, but it was 1 of the reasons wherefore I didn't bash it. Because I said, 'I don't wanna correspond everybody smoking weed.'"
He continued, "And that's 1 of the reasons wherefore I said 'nah.' I didn't wanna support doing that character. It astir apt was bully for maine due to the fact that it kept maine moving to the adjacent signifier and adjacent movies."
Tucker went connected to look successful starred successful 3 "Rush Hour" movies, "The Fifth Element" and "Silver Linings Playbook."
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