Cross-dressing comedians becoming a drag in black films

By Talia Whyte

The Grio

Move over, Tyler Perry – you’re not the only black actor putting a skirt on for the big screen.

Jamie Foxx and Martin Lawrence are reprising their respective television characters – Sheneneh and Wanda – for an upcoming film of the same name. The movie originated as a parody of a movie trailer for a film called ‘Skank Robbers’ which the actors made for the BET Awards. The duo will reportedly produce and write the script for a film portraying their goofy characters as “modern-day independent women trying to make it on their own, one bank robbery at a time.”

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