Marlon Wayans’ latest film “A Haunted House 2″ hit theaters this weekend.
Watch our exclusive interview below:
Tell me about this character Abigail. She’s CRAZY!
Abigail comes from “The Conjuring,” the Annabelle doll, and it stalks her friends, you befriend it, it stalks you. So we thought it would be fun, what if it stalks Malcolm? And then Wyatt stalks him, and then for it to be a real relationship, we’ve all had that crazy girl, that crazy person you trying to get rid of that just won’t go away. It was a lot of fun, a lot of fun to play, and a lot of fun to play with.
Nobody was off limits in your film, what inspired you to take it there and go all the way with “Haunted House 2″?
I’m an equal opportunity offender, I like to go places that people are scared to go, I like to find light in dark places. The darker the place, the more fun it is finding the light. So I’m an equal opportunity offender and I like making people laugh, we all know these subjects, they’re all out there in our face, why not talk about them? But also, when you push the envelope, you erase those lines and you make them blurred, and they actually help to mend the friction and tension between the races. Because you talk about it, when you first see them you’re like “No, Malcolm with a white girl?” but the fact that Malcolm talked about it straight off and you got the sister’s point of view,”Oh no, you with a white girl?” So now, you talk about everything that’s in the room. Same thing with Gabriel Iglesias and my character, we go back and forth with our black and Latino stuff, they feel inclusive. Nobody has made roles for a Latino like this and showing this part of him, and it’s good. I want to represent the world when I do movies.
Who is your favorite hip hop artist of all time and who are you listening to right now?
Of all time, I have to go with top five, it’s hard for me to order which one, Jay Z, Nas, Biggy, those three shoo-ins, for different reasons, I think Kanye is growing as a rapper, you could put a beat under his rants at this point and they’ll be hot, he’s just growing like if you really watch his words, he’s growing as an artist, I don’t know about that last album, but other than that, Ye, and of course Tupac was amazing, he’s actually top ten, I’m a big Tribe Called Quest, Talib Kweli, I still love my De la Soul, Dre, Snoop. Eminem, Eminem can burn, the dude can rap. I don’t look at color when I hear lyricists, when I hear somebody that has punchlines, so those are my favorites.
What inspired you to go into the digital space with whatthefunny.com and where do you see that going in the next five years?
I wanted to do What The Funny because there’s a lot of talent out there that needs to be nurtured, and there’s a huge urban audience. You guys know urban, from being The Source, and urban for us isn’t just black, urban is a culture, urban is a movement, urban is young, black, white, Jewish, Latino, it’s gay, it’s everyone that doesn’t look like the the people that’s on the dollar bill. And so I want to do stuff for that audience, the urban audience, Funny or Die speaks to one audience, and I want to speak to the youth urban culture, and I know how to do it because I was raised in that culture, and there’s a lot to talk about. There’s a new video I could do everyday, somebody’s doing something stupid everyday. I just wanted to have that kind of vehicle so I can so I can do that. So whatthefunny.com go check out our sketches, really funny stuff, Rob Stapleton’s show’s hilarious, Lil Damon’s Bottle Ass Throwin’ Negros is off the charts, I got some stuff on there, Todrick Hall is really talented, it’s good. We have a great audience.
-Chasity Saunders (@itsmechasity)
