Start your day on a high with a look back at the classic comedy Friday, which hit theaters 25 years ago
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"I knew that in Hollywood they tend to pigeonhole talent and when you experience a little success in one genre, their instinct is to keep you in that box," Graywas that first different movie. It was four female leads, action, a little drama, and it was like the polar opposite of. I knew if I delivered at least a decent version of that script, people would look at me in a different way and say, 'This guy can do anything.
years later."Chris Tucker and Faizon Love watched it, and they didn't like it. I was so discouraged.""We tested it and it got a 95," Gray recalled."People were laughing in the aisles. Laughing so much that they would laugh over other jokes. Then we knew we had something, but I was so green I got pissed that we were only the No. 2 film at the box office opening weekend. Mind you, it was only in 800 theaters.
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