![]() ![]() ![]() We can chase each other around this bi#*h all day, but when we clock out we cool. Everything that I did I was doing it to make it best for the character, and I think she was taking it personally. She comes in and puts her finger back in my face and by that time we were at odds. “If you further look in the movie, and I’m in the dressing room before we had the big fight. She wasn’t expecting it and that was a true reaction when she backed up me like, are you f*!king serious? She didn’t know what was coming at her.”Īs described by Chrystale, here is the scene “Diamond” puts finger in “Ronnie’s” face.Ĭhrystale on the realness of Lisa Raye’s character putting her finger in her face: “I walked up on her, I put my finger in her face and I was like ‘I run this motherf!*ka’. I’m gonna invade her space to the point where she is not gonna know what’s happening, and she is just going to have to react naturally. If it’s rehearsed it won’t come of right, so can we just go into the scene? ‘Cause I’m just really gonna invade her space. I said well, I don’t want to rehearse it with her. He said, I know how it’s written, but you tell me what needs to happen to make it really pop. Me and Ice Cube had a conversation, and he said I really need you to lead this scene. “But there was little stuff, like during the fight scene, she (Lisa Raye) didn’t know that when I came and put my finger in her face, she had no idea that that’s how it would go. I admired Ice Cube so much, that I didn’t get caught up with it.” I was just focused on killing it for the fact that Ice Cube took a chance on me, went to bat for me. So I couldn’t even get caught up in whatever she was going thru. I’ll work myself to pure exhaustion before someone can say, well damn I’m disappointed. I was more concerned about doing a great job, and I’ve just the type of person that when people give me an opportunity, the last thing I want to do is let them down. ![]() A lot of things happened that didn’t need to happen.”ĭo you think Lisa Raye was intimidated by you back then?ĬW: “You know looking back I can probably say that, but being young I couldn’t really see that. When we both got casted and got the part, things were a little different because of her being the star, it was just challenges. I just really would go to bat for her, and thought that we would be great friends. And what’s funny is that before we both knew for sure that we got that part, she and I totally got along. Check out what Chrystale said about being casted for the role and the tension between her and Lisa Raye.Ĭhrystale Wilson: “We were both young and we were both stallions out the gate. Chrystale spoke about her work on the film and the truth behind the fight scene with Lisa Raye’s character, “Diamond.” Little did we know, but that fight scene was very intense and so was the tension between the two of them while filming. I LOVE OLD SCHOOL MUSIC spoke exclusively to actress, Chrystale Wilson, best known for her role as “Ronnie” on the hood classic film, The Player’s Club. Next, check out 10 of NYC’s oldest private clubs or take a look at another private club just next door, The National Arts Club.Chrystale Wilson and Lisa Raye in “Players Club” movie Insider Tour of the Players Club on Gramercy Park Join us for a special Untapped Cities insiders tour of the Players Club, led by a club docent: ![]() The Grill, where Mark Twain’s pool cue hangs above the fireplace, is always open to members and their guests, who may also borrow the club’s key to Gramercy Park, where a statue of Edwin Booth commemorates his many achievements. The Players Foundation for Theater Education is open to the public. The Club hosts a wide range of events including plays, workshops, literary readings, concerts, the annual Hall of Fame dinner, the Booth award, pipe night (without smoking), the Shaw Project (monthly readings of George Bernard Shaw’s plays), and more. There are currently 600 members, and the club is eager to welcome new members. Members have included John Barrymore, Cary Grant, Tommy Lee Jones, Gregory Peck, Kevin Spacey, George Kaufman, Angela Lansbury, Liza Minelli, Ethan Hawke, Jimmy Fallon, and many others. Throughout its storied past, the Players Club has been considered “an oasis away from the maddening crowd.” Daniel Day Lewis recently came in to find some peace and quiet. ![]()
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