When you’re an established star in Hollywood, you can add things into your contract that a lot of others can’t.
Queen Latifah is one of those stars.
She first burst onto the scene with her music and then ventured into the acting world with the hit show Living Single and other hit movies. It wasn’t until after her great role in ‘Set It Off’ that she put a specific clause into her contract, though.
Talking about how she came up with the clause, Queen Latifah says she died too good in Set It Off and noticed that if she died, she couldn’t do a sequel, so right after that movie, she started to add a “no death clause” to her contracts so that would leave the door open for a possible sequel.
Queen Latifah doesn’t want to die on screen anymore — in fact, her contract stipulates that she cannot die in any movie she’s in. After the movie Set It Off, in which the rapper-cum-actress died on screen, Latifah added a “death clause” to her contract.
“I put a death clause in my contract right after that movie,” Latifah said on Late Night With Seth Meyers Wednesday night. “I was like, ‘Wait a minute, I’m starting to die too good in these movies. Hold up — if I die, then I can’t be in the sequel.'”
So, she decided there would be “no more dying” for her in movies, even though she, in her words, “died her ass off” in Set It Off. In the movie, which also stars Latifah’s Girls Trip co-star Jada Pinkett Smith, Latifah submits herself to the force of the authorities after a bank robbery goes wrong.
Good for her being that smart and adding something like that to her contracts.
Flip the page for her speaking about her no-death clause.