Big Break
However, the big break of the fledgling actress came in 1996. She starred in the box-office hit The Nutty Professor, opposite Eddie Murphy. She played the love interest of the main character played by Murphy. That same year, Jada was also cast in Set It Off, where she played someone who raids banks together with her buddies to support themselves.
Big Break
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Then she had a quick part in the massively popular slasher film Scream 2, where the killer slays Jada’s co-ed character in a cinema. After that, the actress went on to star in Bamboozled by Spike Lee and appear in the boxing biopic Ali, which stars her husband, Will Smith.
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