--- title: Common Joins Cast of 'Barbershop 3' description: He recently appeared in 'Run All Night' and 'Selma'. canonical: https://time.com/3839555/common-joins-barbershop-3/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-29T00:04:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T06:46:03.203Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Common Joins Cast of 'Barbershop 3' og:description: He recently appeared in 'Run All Night' and 'Selma' og:url: https://time.com/3839555/common-joins-barbershop-3/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt94a3347250e11b81/6987ed642dce017d269e18d3/common-academy-awards.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Rapper/actor Common attends the 87th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood &Highland Center on Feb. 22, 2015 in Hollywood. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Common Joins Cast of 'Barbershop 3' twitter:description: He recently appeared in 'Run All Night' and 'Selma' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt94a3347250e11b81/6987ed642dce017d269e18d3/common-academy-awards.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Common Joins Cast of _Barbershop 3_ by [Dana Rose Falcone / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Dana Rose Falcone / Entertainment Weekly Apr 29, 2015 12:04 AM CUT  Rapper/actor Common attends the 87th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood &Highland Center on Feb. 22, 2015 in Hollywood. Rapper/actor Common attends the 87th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood &Highland Center on Feb. 22, 2015 in Hollywood.Christopher Polk—Getty Images by [Dana Rose Falcone / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Dana Rose Falcone / Entertainment Weekly Apr 29, 2015 12:04 AM CUT Hip-hop artist and actor Common has joined the cast of _Barbershop 3_, EW has confirmed. The Grammy winner will star alongside Ice Cube and Cedric the Entertainer, who are reprising their roles. Malcolm D. Lee will direct. The last _Barbershop_ installment hit theaters in 2004, two years after the original debuted. Common recently appeared in _Run All Night_ and _Selma_, for which “Glory” — his song with and John Legend — took home Best Song at the 2015 Oscars. The Chicago native also [joined the casts](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/28/ew.com/article/2015/04/22/casting-net-common-suicide-squad-being-charlie "undefined") of _Being Charlie_ and _Suicide Squad,_ and reportedly signed on for [Spike Lee’s next project](https://editor.ew.com/article/2015/04/09/report-spike-lee-working-his-next-movie-amazon "undefined"), _Chiraq._ _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/28/common-added-barbershop-3-cast "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://ew.com "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3839555/common-joins-barbershop-3/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3839555/common-joins-barbershop-3/"},"headline":"Common Joins Cast of Barbershop 3","datePublished":"2015-04-29T00:04:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T06:46:03.203Z","description":"He recently appeared in 'Run All Night' and 'Selma'","url":"https://time.com/3839555/common-joins-barbershop-3/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt94a3347250e11b81/6987ed642dce017d269e18d3/common-academy-awards.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dana Rose Falcone / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt94a3347250e11b81/6987ed642dce017d269e18d3/common-academy-awards.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Rapper/actor Common attends the 87th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood &Highland Center on Feb. 22, 2015 in Hollywood.","caption":"Rapper/actor Common attends the 87th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood &Highland Center on Feb. 22, 2015 in Hollywood.","creditText":"Christopher Polk—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3839555/common-joins-barbershop-3/","name":"Common Joins Cast of Barbershop 3"}}]}] ```