Marlon Wayans Defends ‘White Chicks’ In opposition to ‘Cancel Tradition’

May Marlon Wayans get away with making “White Chicks” in 2022? It’s a query that was not too long ago posed to the comic by Buzzfeed and led him to rail towards “cancel tradition.”

Wayans said that films like “White Chicks” are wanted greater than ever regardless of the danger of being canceled. The 2004 comedy starred Marlon and Shawn Wayans as FBI brokers who go undercover as white girls to unravel a kidnapping plot.

“They’re wanted,” Wayans mentioned. “I don’t know what planet we’re on, the place you suppose folks don’t want laughter, and that folks have to be censored and canceled. If a joke is gonna get me canceled, thanks for doing me that favor. It’s unhappy that society is on this place the place we will’t chuckle anymore.”

Wayans continued, “I ain’t listening to this rattling era. I ain’t listening to those of us: These scared-ass folks, these scared executives. Y’all do what you wish to do? Nice. I’m nonetheless gonna inform my jokes the way in which I inform them. And if you wish to make some cash,  leap on board. And if not, then I’ll discover a strategy to do it myself. I do know my viewers. My viewers involves my reveals each weekend and so they go away feeling nice and laughing. One factor in regards to the Wayans: we’ve all the time informed the worst joke one of the best ways.”

Chatting with Leisure Weekly in 2020, Wayans mentioned, “ who loves ‘White Chicks’ essentially the most? White chicks. That’s how you already know it’s a superb film. A superb joke in comedy is when the folks you make enjoyable of chuckle the loudest. And what’s lovely is that we’re equal-opportunity offenders. It was an ideal exploration of gender, of race, of popular culture, and executed with child gloves so everyone may chuckle. And I believe that’s what makes it a cult basic to today.”

Wayans is at the moment selling his Netflix horror comedy “The Curse of Bridge Hole,” during which he co-stars reverse “Stranger Issues” breakout Pariah Ferguson. Wayans informed his co-star to observe “Watch Chicks” earlier than filming began.