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After more than 30 years as a film and TV star, Queen Latifah has earned a very special clause in her contracts: her character is not allowed to die.
As Cleo Sims in 1996’s Set It Off, she was killed by police in a high-speed chase. Her characters also died in 1998’s Sphere co-starring Samuel L. Jackson and 1999’s The Bone Collector co-starring Denzel Washington.
“I don’t get to do any sequels if I keep being this good at [dying]. So I said, ‘Look, you gotta put a no death clause in these contracts so they can’t just kill me off like this,” the Oscar nominee told Entertainment Tonight.
However Latifah,