‘Players Club’ Star Chrystale Wilson Says Ice Cube Yelled ‘Cut’ to Interrupt Lisa Raye’s Iconic Fight Scene, It Wasn’t Rehearsed That Way

“The Players Club” is a classic noir a few single mother who uses her beauty and body to earn money at a strip club to pay for school. The film’s stars at the moment are LisaRaye McCoy, Ice Cube, Jamie Foxx, and the late Bernie Mac.

McCoy’s character, Diamond, a single mother, has many struggles to cope with, including Ronnie, her exotic dancing rival at a strip club.

The two have their moments of arguments throughout the film, until one argument leads to a physical fight, a fight that Chrystale Wilson, who plays Ronnie, says didn’t go as planned.

In a remastered 2021 clip from the “85 South Show,” Wilson it reminds what really happened through the fight scene between her and McCoy’s characters. She said the complete fight was “planned,” but there was a moment when Diamond shoves Ronnie’s head into the mirror that “shouldn’t have happened.”

Wilson explained: “She ended up pushing me into the mirror and I hit my head. That wasn’t supposed to occur, so the blood was coming out of my mouth, but it surely wasn’t supposed to come out then. I had the bullet in my mouth and I used to be supposed to shoot it at a certain point, and when she did, I used to be like, ‘Oh shit.’

She said that looking back on the film, you may see that she immediately stood up, grabbed McCoy and pushed her to the ground when suddenly Ice Cube, who was not only a personality within the film but in addition the director, intervened.

Cube immediately began yelling, “Cut, cut, hey, hey, hey! That’s not how it was supposed to go,” Wilson said within the recording.

She claims she apologized for her role within the argument with LisaRaye, stating, “I was new, she was new. And that happens and it just came out that way. I was very reactive.”

In a 2020 Instagram Live that was shared on a fan’s YouTube page, McCoy also admitted that there had been some issues between her and Wilson.

Showing her fans which moments within the fight scene were really her and Wilson’s and which few scenes were stunt doubles, McCoy said, “we didn’t actually need any freaking stunt doubles because at that particular time Chrystale and I didn’t get along very well, so the fight scene was really authentic. I’ll say that for the time.”

In the interview, Wilson also revealed that there was “hostility” and “tension” due to her actions within the previous scene.

“The tension was building because the other scene where I say ‘I’m driving this motherfucker’ and I stick my finger in her face, that wasn’t it, it wasn’t written there at all.”

Wilson notes that it was an improvised scene, so she told Cube, “I don’t want her to rehearse with me, I don’t want us to go through this scene because I want her to be uncomfortable as hell when I come up to her.”

Wilson says her goal was to make the scene more “believable.” She said, “Everything we rehearsed was over-rehearsed, and she was like, ‘Get away from me, girl,’” and apparently the tactic worked… possibly too well.

According to Wilson from 2020 interview within the case of I LOVE OLD SCHOOL MUSIC, she and McCoy “totally got along” at first, and he or she even thought they “would be great friends.”

That was until, she said, “we both got cast and got the part, and things were a little different because she was the star, and it was just challenges. A lot of things happened that didn’t need to happen.”

Wilson explained that “they were at odds. And it was real” in an earlier scene where viewers can see McCoy stick his finger back into Wilson’s face.

It’s unclear what Wilson and McCoy’s relationship is like now, but Wilson ended her interview by saying that McCoy was “a beautiful woman, she’s a street smart. She knows how to take a situation and really take advantage of it and make the most of it. And that’s a trait I admire.”