In her early acting career, Queen Latifah realised she was dying so often in her on-screen roles she decided to do something about it.
Appearing on the Drew Barrymore show recently, the now 52-year-old “Taxi” and “Beauty Shop” star revealed at one point she mandated a ‘no death clause’ in her contract after getting sick of her characters in early films and on TV shows dying:
“You know, what happened at the beginning of my career… my characters died in the movies and apparently I died my a— off. I was like, ‘Wait a minute, if I keep dying in these movies, I can’t do a sequel’… Henceforth, we kind of threw it in there, a little off-the-cuff funniness. I was like, ‘No more dying. No more getting shot up by 300 bullets in this car’.”
From death by jellyfish swarm in “Sphere,” to the victim of a serial killer in “The Bone Collector,” and gunned down by cops in “Set It Off,” the actress certainly could’ve become the next Sean Bean had she continued down that road.
Barrymore noted that most stars have a no nudity clause in their contracts, to which Latifah responded: “I was like no, you can show my butt if you need too. Here’s my butt, and it’s live.”
Latifah currently leads CBS’ “The Equalizer” TV series which began its third season last week and has already been renewed for a fourth.
Source: Insider
