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With director Richie Keen’s Fist Fight opening this weekend, I recently sat down with Ice Cube to talk about the film. During the interview he talked about why he wanted to make the movie, the great supporting cast and who was he most excited to work with, if he’s planning on working with his son, O’Shea Jackson Jr., in the near future, and his professional basketball league, BIG3, which starts up this summer that features former NBA greats and players.

Check out what Cube had to say in the player above and below is exactly what we talked about followed by the Fist Fight trailer and synopsis. Fist Fight also stars Charlie Day, Jillian Bell, Tracy Morgan, Christina Hendricks, JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Dean Norris, Kumail Nanjiani and Dennis Haysbert.

Ice Cube:

• How his son (O’Shea Jackson Jr.) was awesome in Ingrid Goes West. Have they talked about working together yet?
• What was it about Fist Fight that got him involved?
• The great supporting cast and who was he most excited to work with?
• What’s coming up for him in 2017? Talks about the big 3 which is his professional basketball league.

Here's the official synopsis for Fist Fight:

On the last day of the year, mild-mannered high school English teacher Andy Campbell (Day) is trying his best to keep it together amidst senior pranks, a dysfunctional administration and budget cuts that put jobs on the line. But things go from bad to worse when he accidentally crosses his much tougher and deeply feared colleague, Ron Strickland (Ice Cube), who challenges Campbell to an old-fashioned throw down after school. News of the fight spreads like wildfire and ends up becoming the very thing this school, and Campbell, needed.