First Look at ‘Barbershop 3’ Starring Eve, Nicki Minaj, Common & More

EW, People, and ESSENCE have your first look atBarbershop: The Next Cut, which reunites Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Eve, and the rest of the series cast, while adding a few new, but familiar, faces to the mix.

Common and Nicki Minaj are among the new employees at Calvin’s, with the latter playing a potential romantic rival to Eve’s character, Terri. According to director Malcolm D. Lee (The Best Man Holiday), Minaj opened herself up to some of the series veterans.

 

“Whatever suggestions Cedric and Cube had — whether it was for me or any newcomer to the movie — they were always about making the movie better,” Lee says. “I really appreciated, and I think Nicki did too. She’s a star in her own right. Here she is part of an ensemble, but she fell right in line with how we were going to make this movie and make it as good as we can.”

For a third go-around, there’s more than the shop on the line. As Chicago grows more and more dangerous due to gang violence, the crew from Calvin’s has to come together to help save the community and their own family.

Barbershop: The Next Cut is scheduled to hit theaters on April 15. Stay tuned tomorrow when the official trailer is unveiled.