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An addendum to yesterday’s announcement that Mike Epps has indeed beat out the competition to win the starring role in Lee Daniels’ Richard Pryor biopic…
ET has exclusively confirmed that Oprah Winfrey will play Richard Pryor’s grandmother in the film.
You’ll recall that Oprah shared the news of Epps’ casting on her Instagram page yesterday, and hinted at her involvement in the film as well - although we weren’t certain whether her role would see her in front of, or behind the camera, or both, as she’s done recently on films like “Selma.”
Winfrey will play Marie Carter, Pryor’s grandmother, with whom he had a notoriously complicated relationship with. She ran a brothel, and was quite the dominant matriarch whom Pryor - who grew up in her house, after his mother left - both loved and feared.
As an aside, a few years ago, it was rumored that Oprah Winfrey would play Mama Nadi, the shrewd madame whose bar also functions as a brothel in a film adaptation of Lynn Nottage’s acclaimed play “Ruined.” In 2010, Nottage’s 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama was reportedly heading to the small screen, produced by HBO Films and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions. No word on whether that’s still in development.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowan...ng-grandmother-in-lee-daniels-biopic-20140826
why am i not surprise?
