Damon Wayans Jr. hails from comedy royalty, as the eldest son of Damon Wayans and nephew to Keenen Ivory Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Kim Wayans, and Marlon Wayans. But just because he grew up in a famous showbiz family doesn't mean he's been willing to watch some of their deeper cuts, to put it gently.
Case in point, Wayans made an appearance on The Breakfast Club Power 105.1 FM radio show on Wednesday, where he was asked about whether there were conspiracies about the Wayans due to the family being so successful for so long. "I don't think it's a conspiracy," Wayans responded. "I think it's just family working together, you know, I feel like that's what we should all be doing."
"I feel like Black people learn best by example, and so you have a bunch of examples and you just copy them," he reasoned.
Host Charlamagne tha God then followed up by asking Wayans whether he watched and studied every project his dad, Keenen, and Marlon had starred in since he was a child. "I watched the stuff that I like," the 41-year-old said laughing. "There was ones that I skipped."
When pressed about which movies he skipped out on, Wayans deadpanned: "Glimmer Man?" to near dead silence from the studio, indicating that he wasn't the only one. "My Uncle Keenen did a movie with Steven Seagal. Is that what it's called?" For his part, Charlamagne admitted that he was also unfamiliar with the 1996 buddy-cop action comedy.
"I like the comedies, you know, Don't Be a Menace is one of my favorites, love Major Payne. What's that movie with Jada Pinkett? Oh, Low Down Dirty Shame," he continued. "Those are like my top classics. And Blankman because I was in it."
In The Glimmer Man, Seagal stars as Jack Cole, a former CIA operative who once earned the film's eponymous nickname because "he could move so quickly and quietly through the jungle that his victims would only see a glimmer before they died." After joining the Los Angeles Police Department as a detective, Cole was partnered with Wayans' character, Detective Jim Campbell, who had to work together with despite the pair's differences to track down a serial killer.
You can watch the trailer below, at which point you will have evidently seen more of The Glimmer Man than Damon Wayans Jr. ever has.
from Men's Journal https://ift.tt/dukc4Pl
via IFTTT