Ice Spice is gearing as much as debut on the silver display in Spike Lee‘s upcoming crime thriller Excessive and Low alongside Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington.
The enduring actor and director pairing are reuniting for the fifth time, Selection stories. They beforehand labored collectively on Mo’ Higher Blues, Malcolm X, He Bought Recreation, and Inside Man.
The Bronx native makes her film debut within the thriller which is the English-language reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s crime thriller of the identical identify.
Apple Unique Movies partnered with A24 on the film and is but to substantiate an official launch date. Nonetheless, A24 will launch “Excessive and Low” theatrically earlier than a worldwide launch on AppleTV+.
Little is understood about Ice Spice’s function in Excessive and Low nevertheless it gained’t be lengthy earlier than followers discover out. On Wednesday (April 10), Apple Unique Movies introduced manufacturing is already underway by sharing a put up with Lee and Washington.
“No. 5 now in manufacturing,” it reads.
Whereas Ice Spice has examined her performing chops in a number of advert campaigns, and even crossed over into style, Excessive and Low will likely be her first full-length venture. Though she quickly climbed the ranks of the music trade since exploding onto the scene together with her breakout single “Munch (Feelin’ U” in 2022, performing was her old flame.
“I didn’t ever actually like see myself being a rapper,” Spice defined on Hot97’s Ebro within the Morning final yr. “I at all times wished to be an actress. That was like, my first ardour.”