Comic Katt Williams requested for a rape scene to be reduce from his appearing debut in 2002’s Friday After Subsequent.
“Rape is never funny,” Williams, 52, defined on a Wednesday, January 3, episode of the “Club Shay Shay” podcast hosted by former NFL participant Shannon Sharp.
Enjoying pimp Cash Mike within the movie, which was written by Williams’ costar rapper Ice Dice, Williams stated that the unique model of the script had a harrowing scene involving his character. “Money Mike, in the original script, got raped in the bathroom,” he advised Sharp. “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.”
On the time, Williams was comparatively new in Hollywood and didn’t have plenty of energy, however he fought to do away with the scene by speaking to the filmmakers. “Katt Williams had to take the risk in front of the studios and the cast and the powers that be, in his very first movie, and say, ‘Respectfully, humbly, guys,’” Williams continued. “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.”
On the time, Williams’s knack for comedy wasn’t recognized however he was able to defend his stance. He defined to Sharp what he advised the filmmakers on the time,“If you would allow me, allow us to do this movie without a Black man getting raped in it, I promise you it will be twice as funny.”
Williams advised this story about Friday After Subsequent in response to remarks that comic Rickey Smiley made on the podcast “Pierre’s Panic Room” in 2022 concerning the movie. On the time, Smiley, 55, stated that Williams was initially imagined to be Santa Claus, the robber, within the movie till Ice Dice determined to swap his and Williams’s roles.
As Williams tells it, the position of Cash Mike was all the time his. “[Smiley] told everybody it should have been my role, everybody on the scene.” Williams shared with Sharp, “So considering that’s the real story, why would you bring up that story? 35 members of the cast have never brought up that Rickey Smiley was going to play Money Mike.”
Williams has gone on to turn into a widely known comic with eight rise up specials and plenty of roles below his belt in tv, together with roles in Atlanta and Black-ish, and movies like Norbit.