LUDACRIS RELUCTANT TO PLAY HUSTLE + FLOW VILLAIN

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Ludacris almost turned down his critically-acclaimed role in hit film Hustle + Flow - because he didn't want to play a rapper.

The hitmaker was reluctant to play Skinny Black in the 2005 film - because he didn't think it was an acting role for him.

He explains, "If I'm already a rapper and I'm acting, that's not acting if I'm playing another rapper.

"(Director) John Singleton kept begging me to do the role and I kept telling him no... and then he told me to read the script and understand the rapper (in the film) is not necessarily like my personality.

"Once I read th e script, I fell in love with the script and I knew what it was gonna be. It got some Oscar nominations and it did what it had to do."