Alternate timeline: Marlon Wayans as Richard Pryor in this old audition footage for the comedian’s biopic
As you may recall, comedy fans have waited several years to see a major motion picture biography of the legendary Richard Pryor. It’s happening now, directed by Lee Daniels and starring Mike Epps as Pryor, with Oprah Winfrey playing Pryor’s grandmother, who raised the young comedian in a brothel. But one of the possible iterations of the Pryor biopic would have cast Marlon Wayans in the titular role, and today, we finally can see what that may have looked like. Here is seven minutes of audition footage, with Wayans as Pryor first in an interview session with a doctor...
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