Queen Latifah began her musical career in the late 1980s, Beatboxing for the famous music collective in New York / New Jersey The Flavour Unit. In 1989, she had already published her first single, “Wrath of My Madness”, supervised by the starting producer Fab 5 Freddy. Her rap songs quickly started to obtain a large part of the broadcast, and she became a celebrity on “Yo! MTV Raps”. Only a few years in his professional musical career, Latifah extended in the theater, appearing for the first time in the film by Spike Lee in 1991 “Jungle Fever”. She was in Hollywood comedies for the general public like “House Party 2” and “Who’s the Man?”, While appearing in dramas like “Juice” and “My Life”.

The Latifah stars turn occurred in 1996, playing the role of Cleo in “set it off” by F. Gary Gray, a HEIST film with hard board which also featured Jada Pinkett and Vivica A. Fox. From that moment, she was a force with which it was necessary to count. Latifah worked with Martin Scorsese, sang in musicals like “Chicago” (which earned her an nodal nomination), and she also expressed many animal animals. She made stupid pranks, criminal films and many novels. Latifah is a powerful polymathe, and she speaks at length about the importance of women in hip-hop, all between playing Ellie in the many “glacial” films. More recently, she played in Restarting the “The Equalizer” TV.

The fact that Latifah appeared in many consequences “in the ice age” (And there are so many, they are difficult to follow) can actually the result of a contractual stipulation that it dictated a long time ago. On an episode in 2023 of “The Drew Barrymore Show” (Via New York Post), Latifah revealed that she had a “without death” clause in all her acting work. Latifah said that she had started her acting career often playing characters killed, but that she quickly lost her taste for death. If she wanted a career longevity, reasoned Latifah, she must survive for potential consequences.

Of course, having a non-drum clause in your contracts indeed modifies the kind of films in which Latifah plays. She will not play a crying role playing a character who has a deadly illness, and she will not play a victim in a horror film. But emerging unscathed and capable of making a sequel is more important than being a slasher for Latifah. In Barrymore, she said:

“You know, what happened at the start of my career … My characters died in the films, and apparently I died my ass. […] I said to myself: “Wait a minute, if I continue to die in these films, I can’t make a sequel!” [I said to my people that] “Yo, we have to put a non-duty clause in my contracts. Now we have somehow threw it in there. […] I said to myself, “No more death. The more he was not pulled by 300 balls in this car. “”

To this end, Latifah has not played a character condemned in more than 20 years. This clause, unfortunately, Ruin the end of his 2006 comedy “Last Holiday”, A film on a woman who receives a diagnosis of terminal phase and decides to spend her last days spending all her money and living big. If the public knew that Latifah cannot die, then they will know that she will live to see the end of the film.

Latifah noted that she even had a nickname for her contractual clause: “a little unpleasant function”. She and Barrymore, also humorous, compared her clause to anti-invent clauses that many actors write in their contracts. Latifah was casual. “I was like no, you can show my buttocks if you need it,” she said. “Here are my buttocks, and it’s live!”