Queen Latifah has introduced a ‘no death’ condition to all film contracts.
Queen Latifah insists on a “no death clause” when signing up for new projects to ensure her character doesn’t die onscreen.
The actress has carved out a stellar career in Hollywood since rising to fame as a rapper in the late 1980s.
But during a recent appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show, Latifah revealed that she has a “no death clause” added to her contracts to ensure she isn’t killed off in a film or TV show, as she often was in early performances.
You know, what happened at the beginning of my career…my characters died in the movies and apparently I died my a*s off,” she joked. “I was like, ‘Wait a minute, if I keep dying in these movies, I can’t do a sequel.'”
After getting fed up with being viewed as expendable, she then advised her team, “Yo, we got to put a no-death clause in my contracts. Henceforth, we kind of threw it in there.”
She continued: “I was like, ‘No more dying. No more getting shot up by 300 bullets in this car.'”
However, Latifah noted that she isn’t as strict when it comes to showing her body onscreen and hasn’t followed other stars in pursuing “no nudity” clauses in contracts.
“I was like no, you can show my butt if you need to. Here’s my butt, and it’s live,” the Chicago star smiled.
Latifah, real name Dana Elaine Owens, has most recently been promoting her new Netflix movie, End of the Road.
A luxury holiday resort loved by Hollywood stars and which included the world’s first seven-star hotel is now a derelict wasteland having been eerily deserted for over half a century.
Varosha in Cyprus was known as one of Europe’s most sophisticated destinations, being frequented by the likes of Elizabeth Taylor. It included the Golden Sands hotel, which was a byword for luxury and was so vast it boasted its own mini railway to ferry guests around.
But the fate of Varosha changed forever when on July 20, 1974, the Turkish army invaded the northern part of Cyprus in response to an attempted coup sponsored by the Greek junta five days earlier.
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The military invasion led to the exodus of 180,000 Greek Cypriots from the northern third of Cyprus, including 15,000 residents of Varosha who were forced to abandon their belongings and properties. Since then, Varosha has remained a ghost town, frozen in time and cordoned off by the military, the Mirror reports.
Chilling images now reveal the once stunning seaside resort left to decay, with its buildings crumbling into disrepair. The once bustling streets have been devoid of life for decades, with forgotten churches, vacant shops and the sea washing up on abandoned shores.
An old school and a Toyota dealership are decaying, while several former hotel tower blocks stand empty – a stark reminder of the area’s past as a popular beach resort. At its zenith, Varosha could accommodate around 10,000 tourists and had a population of approximately 25,000 people in 1973. The Golden Sands opened in 1974 on the south side of Varosha/Maras
The ruins can be seen from a specially erected viewpoint in Famagusta close to the border. French photographer Dimitri Bourriau, who has a knack for immortalising the eerie allure of derelict structures, ventured into the forsaken resort.
Speaking to MailOnline, he said: “Nothing could stop nature from reclaiming its rights over the area’s various buildings. The vegetation has spread most rampantly in the northern quarter”.
In a bold move, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ersin Tatar, then prime minister of Northern Cyprus, an entity only acknowledged by Ankara, decided to throw open the doors of the area to tourists in October 2020.
Official stats have since claimed the abandoned town has lured over 1.8 million sightseers in the last four years, clinching a top spot in the league of dark tourism hotspots.
A world-famous actress who was twice nominated for an Oscar and is beloved by younger fans for her role in The Notebook has died, it was revealed today.
Gena Rowlands, who played Allie Hamilton in the Ryan Gosling movie, passed away surrounded by her close family in California after a five-year battle with Alzheimer’s. She was 94.
No official cause of death has been given, but Gena’s son said in June that she had been suffering with Alzheimer’s and had been living with “full dementia.”
Her character in The Notebook also suffered from Alzheimer’s. While celebrating the 20th anniversary of the movie, Gena’s 65-year-old filmmaker son Nick Cassavetes told Entertainment Weekly: “I got my mom to play older Allie, and we spent a lot of time talking about Alzheimer’s and wanting to be authentic with it.
“Now, for the last five years, she’s had Alzheimer’s. She’s in full dementia, and it’s so crazy – we lived it, she acted it, and now it’s on us.”
Gena’s late mother Lady Rowlands died aged 95 in 1999 after suffering the degenerative disease. The actress opened up in 2004 about how her own mum’s struggle with Alzheimer’s had influenced her decision to play Allie in The Notebook, which was adapted from Nicholas Sparks’ 1996 novel.
She told O magazine: “I went through that with my mother, and if Nick hadn’t directed the film, I don’t think I would have gone for it – it’s just too hard. It was a tough but wonderful movie.”
Gena was described as a “once in a lifetime artists” in the many tributes that have followed her death, with many fans insisting they would be watching The Notebook today in honour of her.
