Jan. 5 2024, Revealed 8:23 p.m. ET
Ice Dice is addressing Katt Williams‘ ongoing feud with Rickey Smiley, notably the latter saying he was speculated to play Cash Mike in Friday After Subsequent over Williams, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
Williams made headlines this week when he shot again at Smiley’s accusations and accused him of teaming up with “potato head” Steve Harvey and “walrus” Cedric the Entertainer to sabotage his profession.
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Talking to Shannon Sharpe on his podcast, Membership Shay Shay, Williams fought again towards Smiley’s accusations that he was speculated to pimp Cash Mike within the 2002 motion pictures — an allegation that Dice confirmed is not true.
“It’s your homie, Ice Dice. [I] simply wished to deal with just a few issues,” the rapper-turned-actor stated in an Instagram video on Friday.
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“All people been trying out the web, my man Katt Williams. To begin with, I simply wanna say we shot [Friday After Next] over 20 years in the past. So, you realize, folks have totally different views and it has been a very long time,” Dice defined. “So far as particular issues, Katt was 100 on just a few issues,” Dice continues. “Most of what he was saying. A pair issues, you realize. I simply wanna make clear.”
He defined the audition course of, saying that Smiley learn for a number of roles, together with Cash Mike and the function he landed, which was Santa Claus.
“After we herald a brand new comic we do have them check out for various roles. So Ricky did give Cash Mike a shot. However once we noticed him and noticed how he moved and the way he was auditioning, we determined he can be a greater Santa Claus, which to me was an ideal casting. After we noticed Katt, once I noticed him I simply knew that he was excellent for Cash Mike,” Dice stated.
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“Katt stated he wrote his function, which the function was written, however he enhanced it,” Dice added. “That is why Kat was so dope within the film. Cash Mike had a small function…however once we begin filming he was giving us such magic that we stored increasing his function and giving him extra to do as a result of he was on level.”
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Nevertheless, Dice denied Williams’ accusation that there was initially a rape scene within the film. The comic claimed he compelled them to take it out.
“We might by no means, ever present that,” Dice revealed. “That’s not my type.”
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As for why he spoke up for Williams, Dice stated he was returning the favor.
“A lot love for Kat,” Dice concluded. “He spoke up for me so much and I simply wished to be clear and make clear some issues.”
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Smiley spoke out after Williams’ interview. He claimed the feedback, together with the one about him sporting a costume, harm his household and affected his children.
“That has nothing to do with my manhood being lessened for making an attempt to play a job and making an attempt to place meals on the desk for my household,” Smiley fired again.
“It makes me unhappy the best way that made my children really feel. I’m not making an attempt to say any of this for sympathy, I’m simply saying I’m coping with stuff.”