Marlon Wayans takes a walk down memory lane as he rewatches scenes from his classic works including 'Scary Movie,' 'Requiem for a Dream,' 'White Chicks,' 'The Wayans Bros.,' 'Air,' and 'Good Grief.' Marlon dishes on the "art to the fart" on 'White Chicks,' exploring his grief in 'Good Grief' after losing his parents and so much more.Marlon Wayans: Good Grief is streaming on Prime Video. The Wild Child Tour – tickets on sale now at MarlonWayansOfficial.comDirector: Jameer PondDirector of Photography: Bradley WickhamEditor: Morgan DoppTalent: Marlon WayansProducer: Madison CoffeyLine Producer: Romeeka PowellAssociate Producer: Lyla NeelyProduction Manager: Andressa PelachiProduction Coordinator: Elizabeth HymesTalent Booker: Mica MedoffCamera Operator: Caleb WeissGaffer: Niklas MollerAudio Engineer: Lily van LeeuwenProduction Assistant: Alexis AlzamoraGroomer: Rebecca DeHerreraSet Designer: Jeremy Derbyshire-MylesPost Production Supervisor: Christian OlguinPost Production Coordinator: Scout AlterSupervising Editor: Doug LarsenAssistant Editor: Justin Symonds
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00:00I never want to play a white woman again.
00:02It's so much work.
00:02I just want to play a black man, that's all.
00:04I want to do Black Guy, the movie.
00:06No makeup, no hair, I wake up, I go to set,
00:10and boom, black man in theaters.
00:14Hey, what's up?
00:14It's Marlon Wayans.
00:16Apparently we're going to be watching some scenes
00:18from my long-ass career.
00:21Let's go.
00:22♪♪
00:29♪♪
00:36I see dead people.
00:40Man, this shit is awesome.
00:43You know what I'm saying?
00:44You got to roll some more of that shit.
00:47Shorty wasn't written because I was filming
00:50Dungeons & Dragons and Requiem,
00:52so they left my character kind of out
00:54while they was putting together the movie,
00:56and so Kenan was like, every time I come to set,
00:59okay, so what's Shorty going to do today?
01:02And I'd be like, wait, what do you mean?
01:04You wasn't here,
01:05we didn't write your character like that,
01:07so you tell me what he's going to do.
01:09Go into my trailer, and I come back with pages.
01:11Shorty's downstairs getting high with all his friends,
01:14and the killer walks in,
01:15and you think he's going to kill him,
01:16but instead, he gets high with them.
01:20Oh, shit.
01:24Chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug.
01:28And then from there, it was like,
01:30I started thinking what else would be fun with the killer,
01:32and it'd be like, yo, if we freestyle,
01:34we know everybody's always talking freestyles,
01:36and they're always violent, but what if you freestyled it
01:38with somebody that's like really violent,
01:40like a fucking slasher?
01:42When the phone rings, don't answer that call,
01:44you're going to slip your throat, fuck you like a goat,
01:46peel your foreskin off, and make a winter coat.
01:48Peace.
01:51Yo.
01:54That was the illest rhyme I ever seen, son!
01:58And Shorty was based on a real person,
02:00a dude I knew who was my barber,
02:02and he smoked a lot of weed, and I was just like,
02:04son, I'm going to do you in a movie.
02:06Me and my family have a long history
02:10of knowing some really funny people that we grew up with,
02:14or really funny people that we was around,
02:16and we was like, that's a character.
02:20♪♪
02:25Shit, man.
02:27That motherfucker's starting to look a little seedy, Jim.
02:30What, are you a potato keeper all of a sudden?
02:32Hey, baby.
02:33I don't care if your motherfucker's growing hair,
02:35just as long as we get our bread.
02:37Just give me a hand.
02:39Jared Little, that's a pretty motherfucker, ain't he?
02:42I used to piss him off every day when we did Requiem,
02:45because he was so into his character, you know,
02:48he'd stop eating and shit and get all emaciated,
02:51and I was like, I ain't going to do all that skinny shit.
02:54Let me get a burger.
02:55So he's eating, like, little pumpkin seeds,
02:57and I'm sitting there going, mm, you hungry?
03:00-♪♪
03:08Hello.
03:09Hi.
03:11That was a very hard movie to do, Requiem,
03:13because it was my first, like, real dramatic role,
03:15but Darren Aronofsky had me come to New York City in February.
03:19First of all, I auditioned six times for the role.
03:22Finally, I got the role.
03:23So he makes me come to New York in a meeting,
03:25and he's like, okay, come on, we're going to go for a walk.
03:28It's February.
03:29He said, take your shirt off.
03:30I said, what kind of, what was going on?
03:32And he's like, just trust me.
03:34I took my shirt off, and we walked around New York City
03:37with no shirt in February, and I freeze it.
03:41We got back to the rehearsal stage, rehearsal room,
03:44and he was like, how do you feel?
03:46I said, cold.
03:47He said, I just want you to know what it felt like
03:50to be cold in New York.
03:52Remember this moment, because it's going to be June
03:54when we film this scene that takes place in winter.
03:57I said, you jackass, I was born and raised in New York.
04:00Why the hell would you, I know how cold it is out here.
04:03I didn't have no jack in my old childhood.
04:06Why would you, I was poor.
04:09I don't need this method acting thing.
04:12But I did it, and the movie turned out great,
04:15so maybe I should shut up.
04:17I remember specifically, we went to a heroin clinic
04:20to talk to recovering addicts, and there was this one dude,
04:25and he was like, he's buff, like lean and buff,
04:28and I was like, and he was funny.
04:30And I was like, oh, that's interesting.
04:34For my character, that's what I want to do.
04:37I want to be the fun guy.
04:39And Darren was like, yes.
04:41And so when he has his fall from grace,
04:45that's when the audience is just like, oh, shit,
04:48on top of her getting ass to ass,
04:50and this dude getting his arm chopped off,
04:53and the mother getting electric shock treatment
04:56like all of us went on this ride straight to hell.
04:59It helped sell the tragedy of that movie,
05:03and I think that, yeah, that'll make you put your drugs down.
05:06Requiem is the greatest drug PSA ever.
05:15I like a woman with a little extra something.
05:20A little cushion for the pusher.
05:24White Chicks was a very hard movie
05:26because we spent 6 hours in makeup.
05:28It was supposed to be summertime in the Hamptons.
05:30We filmed wintertime in Vancouver,
05:33and then with 2 black men playing 2 white women,
05:37and I got brown eyes,
05:39and so they put blue guy context in,
05:42and man, the heels, my feet hurt so bad.
05:45I never want to play a white woman again.
05:47Everybody's like, it's so much work.
05:49I just want to play a black man, that's all.
05:51I want to do black guy in the movie.
05:53Crazy enough, I actually make a pretty cute white woman,
05:56so much so that Terry Crews developed a crush on me
06:00as the white chick, and I was like,
06:02girl, if you don't get your ass away from me.
06:04He's like, you just look so cute.
06:10Oopsie, I had a poopsie.
06:13Girl, we gonna get along just fine.
06:19Is there art to the fart?
06:21I mean, most people enjoy scatological humor.
06:23You know what I mean?
06:24I just feel like when you're a writer or you're a critic,
06:27it's hard to embrace crazy humor like we had.
06:31We did it for the audience.
06:32We did it for the layman's.
06:33We did it for the real people that just wanted to laugh,
06:36that wasn't thinking too much.
06:37We did it for the writers that can't write about it,
06:40but they can still enjoy the movie.
06:42They just can't say they enjoyed the movie.
06:44We got like one and a half stars on this movie,
06:47and 20-something years later, it's a classic.
06:52We're brothers, we're happy and we're singing and we're colored.
07:03Give me a high five.
07:06Our family, we're a bunch of trolls.
07:09We were all a bunch of trolls.
07:11And it's always the same TV, two brothers,
07:14some white guys writing their show,
07:16and they're dressed like, you know,
07:18like what they think the hip, cool clothes are,
07:21and acting jive and hip, and it's unauthentic.
07:25And we wanted to shake things up,
07:27so we started with that.
07:28We're their brothers, they're happy and they're singing
07:30and they're colored.
07:31The reason why we did that is that was us shaking up pop culture.
07:36That was us going, we're going to break some rules.
07:38We're going to do some different shit.
07:39You're going to see two black guys on TV
07:41with their own show like you've never seen it before,
07:44and that's what we did.
07:46My mama died.
07:48What?
07:51Mama died?
08:05We looked at the content that was on television at the time.
08:09We was looking at these roles that black people had,
08:12and they always had us so melodramatic.
08:15You know, it was always black people being so sorry
08:19about something and being dramatic.
08:22So every little thing, we made fun of those characters
08:28and that writing by doing it and sending it up
08:32and be like, why?
08:34Over the littlest thing.
08:37If you watch Wayne's Brothers, over the years we got better.
08:40The shows got better, the stories got better
08:42because we got more experience,
08:44and we knew what was right, what was wrong.
08:46We found our pocket, and then they canceled our black ass.
08:49But the beauty, and the beauty of God,
08:51is the minute they canceled our show,
08:54Scary Movie became the biggest hit in Hollywood.
09:02He did say if somebody was to buy him a red Mercedes 380 SL,
09:08he would sign a shoe contract for life with anybody
09:12except Nike.
09:13It was great to go play the legendary George Ravlin.
09:16You know, something Michael Jordan wanted in the movie,
09:18and it was important, and Ben was like,
09:20it's an important role, it's not going to get cut no matter what
09:23because Michael Jordan wants this in the movie.
09:25And I was like, because normally somebody goes,
09:27you want to do one scene, it's like,
09:29I don't know, you could easily cut that one scene.
09:31But I was like, oh, MJ said it's in?
09:33Oh, I'm there, I'm there.
09:35I'm looking for my favorite line, it's not in there.
09:37Then I notice the whole second half of the speech
09:40is completely different.
09:42What was the line you were looking for?
09:44I have a dream.
09:46Come on, get the fuck out of here.
09:48The I have a dream, do you have that?
09:50I got a call from Ben Affleck.
09:53I thought it was spam, so I almost hung up on his ass.
09:56And I heard J-Lo in the background.
09:58I was like, oh, maybe this really is him.
10:00It's a drama, but I want him to have this personality,
10:02and you're such a good actor, and you're good looking,
10:05and people know you, and I was talking to J-Lo,
10:07and she was like, what about Marlon?
10:09I was like, perfect.
10:11He gave me a 45-minute phone call,
10:13and the ass said, would you be in my movie?
10:16I was like, Ben, you had me at hello.
10:19I seen Argo? Yes, I'd be in your movie.
10:21I'd be an extra on you.
10:23If you told me you was filming a porn,
10:25I'd be like, bet, what time I'm showing up.
10:32It's crazy, my father would never even say the phrase
10:35happy birthday.
10:37Like if he said happy birthday, he would instantly go to hell.
10:40So he wouldn't say the phrase, and he'd call me on my birthday.
10:42He goes, hey, son, happy Wednesday.
10:45All true.
10:47This Negro never celebrated holidays.
10:51It was so weird growing up that my mom loved holidays,
10:54and my dad didn't.
10:56Halloween, Christmas, nothing.
10:58I think that's why we loved holidays so much,
11:00was just because we wanted to annoy the shit out of my dad.
11:03This special Good Grief definitely helped me
11:07heal from the trauma of losing my parents.
11:10Enjoy your life.
11:12Enjoy your parents.
11:14Enjoy your loved ones.
11:16As long as you can live and breathe,
11:18please do the best you can
11:20to get as much out of life as you can.
11:27I had great parents, great upbringing,
11:30wonderful brothers and sisters.
11:32I had a dope-ass childhood, but I just missed my parents.
11:35And I think talking about them every weekend on a stage,
11:39and oftentimes I'd cry on that stage.
11:42I cry more on a stage than I do in therapy.
11:45And that's crazy, because I spend $250 an hour
11:48for my damn therapy.
11:50My mama told me as a little boy, she said,
11:52baby boy, you learn to laugh in your worst moments.
11:58And you gonna smile the rest of your days.
12:04Losing my mother was my worst moment.
12:17I think I cried that night because it was,
12:20like, saying goodbye to my parents was a send-off.
12:24Yeah, that experience was exactly that, cathartic.
12:28It was like, brought it all home for me.
12:31And now I know I got God, and I got my mom here,
12:35and my dad here, and I got wings.
12:37So now, like I said, I'm ready for the next level of life,
12:40for the next 50 years.
12:42And by the time I'm 100, I'm gonna finally look 50.
12:50Thanks for watching.
12:52Ouch-o.