Chris Tucker hasn’t said to much ever since he made headlines for owing Uncle Same over $11 million dollars.
He recently sat down with the ‘Tom Joyner Morning Show’ and was all jokes as he talked about doing a comedy tour and releasing it as a DVD so that he could raise the funds to pay his tax bill. He also addressed the internet rumors that he would be working on another ‘Friday’, as well as a planned project with Jackie Chan.
Check out the highlights from the interview below:
On Working With Jackie Chan Again
You know what? We’re working on something. We always wanted to do another one. Hopefully it all comes together because I love Jackie and I loved doing those movies so we’ll see what happens.[…]Oh, man, $20 million is good for me. I can go through $20 million like $20 though. I don’t how what happened. I made a lot of money & I thought it was all mine. I forgot about the I.R.S. The I.R.S. said ‘You think you live in Saudi Arabia? Half of that [is] ours!’ So yeah, I need another $20 [million]. That $20 [million] would be good.
On his money situation (Joking)
I’ve bought everything I’ve ever wanted. I’m not buying no more cars, no more houses…me, Jermaine Dupri and Toni Braxton are getting a condo together so I’m saving my money. I’ve done everything I’ve ever wanted to do. The rest of it is for my kids, for my son. I have one son, I said, ‘I don’t need no more.’
On Meeting President Obama
I met Barack before he was president. He was running for senator [and] in L.A., and we were at James Lasster’s house, Will Smith’s manager’s house. I got there late and he was getting ready to leave and I said “I want to meet him too,’ so they said ride in the car with him to the next fundraiser. So I rode in the car to the next fundraiser and were would talk about miscellaneous stuff like basketball, chicken, nothing really important. He was cool. Signed me a book and everything. I should have talked to him about something more important like, ‘If you ever hear about me on taxes, tell them to let it go.’
On If He’ll Do Another ‘Friday’ Movie
I don’t know. I talked to Ice Cube because it’s such a big rumor and people get mad if you say you’re not doing something so I’m real careful. Me and Cube, we’re talking about it — they working on a script, if it comes back…I don’t think it will be as special as the first one. When they were doing the ‘Next Fridays’ I was already doing ‘Money Talks’ and I always wanted to keep going to the next level so I wouldn’t always be in that box. So [it was] ‘Money Talks’ with Charlie Sheen and then after that we did the ‘Rush Hours’ and ‘Fifth Element’ and ‘Dead Presidents’ and that’s what happened. I was already doing another movie when they said that and I was like, ‘What? I did that already.’ Back then I was real smart so I’m trying to get back to that though. We’ll see what happens, but I doubt it.
I improved a lot of that movie. I don’t know if we could create that magic again.
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