Ice Spice is ready for her close-up and for her acting debut opposite Hollywood royalty.

The Think U The S**t (Fart) rapper has been officially cast in Spike Lee s upcoming remake of High and Low, the 1963 crime classic from Akira Kurosawa, which has reportedly already started filming with Oscar winner Denzel Washington in the lead.

The unexpected news was confirmed Wednesday by Variety and spawned polarized reactions among certain cinephiles and rap fans, who are respectively baffled Lee would remake another classic and choose an unproven talent to star opposite Washington .

Spice, born Isis Naija Gaston, shot to stardom in a matter of months. While she first started rapping in 2021, her debut song Munch (Feelin U) in 2022 charted on Billboards Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart after Drake played it on his Sirius XM radio station.

Spice has only released one EP, but has already worked with industry titans like Nicki Minaj , received four Grammy nods and won an MTV Video Music Award for best new artist. Shes even become friends with Taylor Swift and attended the Super Bowl with her.

Lees movie is being co-produced by A24 and Apple Original Films , the latter of which confirmed on social media Wednesday that No. 5 is now in production. The post included an image of Lee and Washington, for whom this is indeed the fifth collaboration, flashing five fingers.

Shes famous for 2 seconds and gets to star next to Denzel Washington when Black actors who worked on their craft all they life will never work with him, wrote one user on X , formerly Twitter, with another joking : WE GAVE THIS GIRL TOO MUCH FAME.