Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “Friday”

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The role of Smokey was supposed to go to a whole lot of people, including Chris Rock and Tommy Davidson. The studio really wanted a big name for that role. But Chris Rock was doing “SNL” and Davidson was doing “In Living Color.” In an interview with Black Film.com Gray said it was a struggle to get Tucker. Obviously, it was a great choice. “It’s just like Chris Tucker with Friday, he was unknown and it was a fight to get him into Friday, but now he’s a $20 million actor, it’s that ‘it’ thing, there’s just something about him.”

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