WAYANS’ FEARS OVER PRYOR ROLE
MARLON WAYANS is convinced his entire career hangs on his upcoming portra= yal of legendary funnyman RICHARD PRYOR - comparing the challenge to clim= bing Mount Kilimanjaro.
The White Chicks star is set to play the late comic in new biopic Richa= rd Pryor: Is It Something I Said? Wayans admits he is fearful of cinema-goers’ reactions when the film is= eventually released in 2011, because Pryor is remembered with such rever= ence among comedy fans.
And he’s convinced the role will make or break his Hollywood career.
He tells the Los Angeles Times, "This (movie) is like an invitation to = climb Mount Kilimanjaro for me, and I’ve never been more excited in my li= fe than when I got the role. I want to prove I can handle a role such as = this one.
"He’s huge, there is so much feeling for Richard Pryor. It’s hard to be= bigger than Richard Pryor. He changed comedy, and he did it in his own u= nique way. Richard Pryor meant so much to black people. Bill Cosby was li= ke Martin Luther King but Pryor, he was like Malcolm X." Pryor passed away in 2005 at the age of 65.
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