Are we ready for the next rapper-turned-actor? Ice Spice joins the likes of other Ice-named rappers Ice Cube and Ice-T in Hollywood, having beeb cast in a new Spike Lee Joint.
Variety reports the Grammy-nominated rapper will appear in Spike Lee’s High and Low, an upcoming English-language reinterpretation of the Akira Kurosawa crime thriller. Lee’s upcoming film will mark Ice Spice’s acting debut, and she’s already begun shooting for the project, per the outlet.
Kurosawa’s High and Low starred Toshiro Mifune and was based on the Ed McBain novel King’s Ransom. The film follows a board member of a Japanese company who is forced to make a decision between using a vast amount of wealth to gain executive control and helping his employee by lending him the money to free his child from kidnappers.
With this project, Lee and Washington teamed up for the first time since 2006. They previously collaborated on Mo’ Better Blues, Malcolm X, He Got Game, and Inside Man.
This is Ice Spice’s first collaboration with Spike Lee. Ice Spice’s first studio album, Y2K, will be released later this year.
Apple Original Films and A24 are partnering on Spike Lee’s High and Low, which will be released theatrically by A24 before a global launch on AppleTV+. Alan Fox and Lee will write the script. Todd Black will produce for Escape Artists, and Jason Michael Berman for Mandalay Pictures. Lee will also serve as executive producer through his 40 Acres And A Mule Filmworks.
Stay tuned for more updates as Spike Lee’s High and Low near production and eventual release.
Originally published April 10, 2024. Updated April 11, 2024.
