Why Queen Latifah invented a ‘no death clause’ for her movie contracts
appeared on “The Drew Barrymore Show” recently and revealed that she has a “no death clause” in her filming contracts.A “no death clause” in an actor’s agreement signifies that their character can’t die in a story.“You know, what happened at the beginning of my career … my characters died in the movies and apparently I died my a– off,” Latifah joked to host Drew Barrymore. “I was like, ‘Wait a minute, if I keep dying in these movies, I can’t do a sequel,'” the “U.N.I.T.Y” singer added.Latifah then advised her team, “Yo, we got to put a no death clause in my contracts.” “Henceforth, we kind of threw it in there,” she noted, adding that she named the clause, “a little off the cuff funniness.”“I was like, ‘No more dying.