While on "The Cruz Show," Marlon Wayans shared his thoughts on Black male actors wearing dresses in roles, which is something Katt Williams criticized in his viral "Club Shay Shay" interview.
Wayans explained, "You’re talking to a Black man that put on a dress. That conversation to me is silly because it’s a negative thing that is only in Black people. We have for some reason been programmed to look down on the craziest parts about our experience, that we’re supposed to not embrace our past, not embrace our history, not embrace our heroes, not embrace our different levels of comedy, and that we have to be this way."
He added, "When Robin Williams puts on a dress in Mrs. Doubtfire and is nominated for an Oscar, White people think it’s brilliant. His community embraces him. When Dustin Hoffman puts on the dress in Tootsie and wins an Oscar, he’s labeled brilliant.
"Black people put on dresses and all of a sudden we’re labeled by our own people as something negative. We did White Chicks and that’s a classic. The whole thing about you putting on a dress and you’re selling out, that is not an artist’s mindset. When you are an artist, you go out and you create art."
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