Who did Angela Means play in Friday? Resurfaced video shows actress saying she would prefer a 'Felisha' spinoff series over another Friday movie

Angela Means garnered mainstream fame with her brief appearance in Ice Cube and Chris Tucker's starrer Friday.

The actress-comedian played the supporting role of Felisha Parker, which generated a popular internet meme in the subsequent years, “Bye, Felisha.” In the 1995 cult classic, the character portrayed by Means is depicted as a woman who keeps begging everyone in the neighborhood for something, seemingly irritating them.

After acting in the original film, the actress didn’t appear in the sequels, Next Friday and Friday After Next. However, days after a fourth Friday film was confirmed, a clip from Angela's past interview with The Art of Dialogue has resurfaced.

In a recently shared clip from The Art of Dialogue (@ArtOfDialogue_)'s 2022 conversation with Angela Means, the actress talked about preferring a Felisha series over another Friday movie. During the chat, she reflected upon why a new film in the series might not work.

Angela Means was seemingly against the idea of another Friday movie but in favor of a Felisha-centric series

With its commercial and critical success, Friday spawned its two sequels and an animated series. A fourth Friday movie was recently confirmed, per The Hollywood Reporter, with Ice Cube closing the deal with Warner Bros. The rapper will write and star in the film.

While fans might be waiting for another Ice Cube starrer, the actor who portrayed Felisha had some other thoughts. In a clip reposted by The Art of Dialogue, the actress talks about the supposed plot of the next sequel to the 1995 film, claiming how it might not be "captivating,"

“How is this project [new Friday movie] going to be even captivating [...] 50-year-olds running around the hood talking about what's up, man [...] Or Smokey and DayDay in jail because they sold some weed. I don't think that's lightning in a bottle.”

She expressed how many black men are in jail for selling weed, and it is not funny to use such plot points in the movie. Angela Means continues,

“I want to see their individual stories. I don't think all these people are on this block, whether it's a reunion show… I don't know and it's been so long so many of the characters are gone. I want to see I want to see a I want to see a Netflix series called Felisha.”

In the clip, Angela Means jokingly pitched the premise of the Netflix series centered around Felisha,

“I think they just need to do a Netflix series called Felisha. Follow her from a little girl all the way up into uh professional athlete mom. Her and Deebo had eight kids, they are all professional athletes, they all play… They birthed an entire defensive line and all their names start with D – Deebo Jr Deebo II, Deebobob, Deedeebo [laughs].”

Angela Means wrote a bio on Felisha, describing it as an “amazing process”

In an interview with Comedy Hype 2022, the Cousin Skeeter actress reflected upon her character from Friday. Angela told the interviewer that she wasn’t surprised to land the role of Felisha, as it was the “interesting character” she had manifested on her list of things to do. The actress talked about writing the bio on Felisha Parker before she immersed herself in the role,

“I wrote a bio on Felisha and it was an amazing process, it was one of the greatest processes that I've ever been allowed to be a part of. So, I wrote a very intense bio on her. Some of the things that had happened to her. I mean, her background from, you know, [...] Everything about her.”

Angela Means added,

“I wish I still had that thing [...] So, I put everything down on paper. Then I put it inside. I trusted it and Angela went away and this person Felisha emerged.”

Angela Means proclaimed that she was the only person working that way. She used the Meisner technique to portray Felisha, questioning why everyone was unkind to her, dismissive of her, and never defended her. She also recalled,

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“People come at me, even to this day, I’ll see people saying, you know, ‘Bye you dirty b***h,’ ‘You f**ked up b***h,’ ‘You dumb b***h.’ Not one time, not even the mother said, ‘Hey, um, Felicia. I wonder what’s going on with her.’ Not one person.”

She also lauded Ice Cube and DJ Pooh’s writing, which depicted the “life of the black folks in the hood” during the ‘90s. However, Angela Means also noted that the movie let “Felisha fall through the crack.”

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