Ludacris
Hustle & Flow (2005)The best rappers-turned-actors: Ludacris
REAL NAME Chris Bridges
RAP PERSONA Boastful, hard-partying joker
SCREEN CHARACTER Skinny Black, a successful rapper who's become blinded by bling and surrounds himself with a posse of yes-men. Still, he returns each July 4th to his hometown of Memphis, where pimp-turned-aspiring-rapper Djay (Terrence Howard) hopes to slip him a demo tape.
WHY HE'S GREAT In a short amount of screen time, Luda quickly and easily telegraphs all you need to know about his character, who has all but cut himself off from his roots, who basks in flattery, and who turns out to be all too human and ordinary.
EW MOVIE GRADE A- (Read the review)
IF YOU LIKE THIS Ludacris also appears in 2 Fast 2 Furious as the dean of Miami's underground street-racing scene and in 2005's Crash as an unlikely carjacker.
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