During this time, we get a flashback from Diamond that answers the reason for her fallout w/Ronnie. Later, when Diamond's 18-year-old cousin, Ebony, comes to stay w/her (w/her intentions of working at the club), Ronnie, knowing it would get under Diamond's skin, immediately latches on to Ebony & begins manipulating/corrupting her. When Diana, now know as Diamond, first starts, Ronnie takes her under her wing for a period of time until Diamond abruptly breaks from her. She persuaded the film's protagonist, Diana, into quitting her shoe store job & working at the club for more money. Ronnie, along w/her friend/partner-in-crime Tricks, is the HBIC among the ranks of the dancers at the Players Club. And then she turned around and told Ice Cube that I’m snatching her all hard.Greedy, Self-centered, Manipulative Ronnie (Chrystale Wilson) is the main antagonist of the 1998 movie The Players Club. One time in particular, we were around the jacuzzi, and she (Lisa Raye) was like, yeah just grab me don’t worry about it, just snatch me. We can chase each other around this bi#*h all day, but when we clock out we cool. Everything that I did I was doing it to make it best for the character, and I think she was taking it personally. She comes in and puts her finger back in my face and by that time we were at odds. If you further look in the movie, and I’m in the dressing room before we had the big fight. As described by Chrystale, here is scene Diamond puts finger in “Ronnie’s” face.Ĭhrystale on the realness of Lisa Raye’s character putting her finger in her face: She wasn’t expecting it and that was a true reaction when she backed up me like, are you f*!king serious? She didn’t know what was coming at her. I walked up on her, I put my finger in her face and I was like ‘I run this motherf!*ka’. I’m gonna invade her space to the point where she is not gonna know what’s happening, and she is just going to have to react naturally. If it’s rehearsed it won’t come of right, so can we just go into the scene? ‘Cause I’m just really gonna invade her space. I said well, I don’t want to rehearse it with her. He said, I know how it’s written, but you tell me what needs to happen to make it really pop. Me and Ice Cube had a conversation, and he said I really need you to lead this scene. Details About Their Fight SceneĬW: But there was little stuff, like during the fight scene, she (Lisa Raye) didn’t know that when I came and put my finger in her face, she had no idea that that’s how it would go. I admired Ice Cube so much, that I didn’t get caught up with it. I was just focused on killing it for the fact that Ice Cube took a chance on me, went to bat for me. So I couldn’t even get caught up in whatever she was going thru. I’ll work myself to pure exhaustion before someone can say, well damn I’m disappointed. I was more concerned about doing a great job, and I’ve just the type of person that when people give me an opportunity, the last thing I want to do is let them down. ILOSM: Do you think Lisa Raye was intimidated by you back then?ĬW: You know, looking back I can probably say that, but being young I couldn’t really see that. A lot of things happened that didn’t need to happen. When we both got casted and got the part, things were a little different because of her being the star, it was just challenges. I just really would go to bat for her, and thought that we would be great friends. And what’s funny is that before we both knew for sure that we got that part, she and I totally got along. I LOVE OLD SCHOOL MUSIC: What was it working with Lisa Raye?Ĭhrystale Wilson: We were both young, and we were both stallions out the gate. I Love Old School Music spoke exclusively to Chrystale Wilson, best known for her role of “Ronnie” on the classic film, “The Player’s Club” about her work on the film and the truth behind the fight scene with Lisa Raye’s character, “Diamond.” Little did we know, but that fight scene was very intense, and so was the tension between the two of them. Chrystale Wilson and Lisa Raye as “Ronnie” and “Diamond” in “The Player’s Club” film
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