15 Weird Facts About Friday (1995) You Never Knew

15 Weird Facts About Friday (1995) You Never Knew The behind-the-scenes mystery of this movie will leave you shocked. Thirty years ago, a 26-year-old rapper who had never written a screenplay helped create one of the most quoted comedies in American cinema. Made for just $3.5 million, shot in twenty days, and filmed almost entirely on one real street in South Central Los Angeles, it looked simple on screen. It wasn’t. What really happened during filming? Who almost walked away? And what secrets from Friday have fans never heard? Join us as we reveal fifteen weird facts about Friday.Before there was a script, deal, or a single camera rolling on one-twenty-sixth Street, there was a conversation between Ice Cube and DJ Pooh about something that was genuinely bothering both of them. Every time Hollywood made a movie about a Black neighborhood in Los Angeles, it looked like a battlefield. Boyz n the Hood. Colors. Menace II Society. These were serious, important films. But they were also presenting one specific version of what life in South Central looked like, and it was not the whole picture.