9 More Insane Demands That Famous Actors Made For Movies

4. Queen Latifah Demands To Live Forever

Some contract clauses are ostentatious and greedy, but others are just plain smart. That's definitely the case with the one inserted by Queen Latifah after she starred in 1996 heist flick Set It Off.

In that film, according to Latifah herself, she "died really good... I died my ass off" and elsewhere she'd also “got attacked by a squid underwater and died under there." With those already on her CV, she simply stopped wanting to die in movies.

After '96, she insisted on a clause in her contracts that says she cannot be killed off and that it's partly just simple business sense. She's protecting her own interests:

“I put a death clause in my contract right after that movie. I was like ‘wait a minute, I’m starting to die too good in these movies’ and if I die I can’t be in the sequel. No more dying, that’s it”.

Here's the death that made her change her approach:

At least she got a good one in before she stopped.