🚲 Interesting fact: Friday (1995) — Ice Cube wrote the screenplay because he wanted to show a more lighthearted, “neighborhood” side of South Central Los Angeles compared to the violent “hood” movies common at the time. The film was shot on a shoestring budget of $3.5 million over just 20 days. Chris Tucker was paid only $10,000 for his legendary role as Smokey, and he famously turned down $10 million to appear in the sequels because he had become a born-again Christian and didn’t want to portr