Fuqua: 'Pfeiffer was wild for 'Paradise'

Antoine Fuqua has said that Jerry Bruckheimer helped him to cast Michelle Pfeiffer in the 1995 music video 'Gangsta's Paradise'.

The Brooklyn's Finest director also revealed that he had used the video for the Coolio rap song to launch a film career.

Speaking to SOHH, Fuqua said: "That was cool, a good experience man. That set off a lot of things for me because at the time, I was doing a lot of commercials. I had stopped doing videos for a while.

"Jerry Bruckheimer called me up to do that video. And when I spoke to Bruckheimer, I wanted to move into movies, so I said if I could put Michelle Pfeiffer in the video, would she do it. He said, 'Well, I'll give you her number, call her'.

"I called her, man, and it was wild, and she was like, 'Yeah, I'll do it, how much time do you need?' We talked about it, I told her what I wanted to do, sent her over a synopsis, and I shot the video, put a lot of different cats in it and then I directed it for a day."