Marlon Wayans
Comedian & actor
Comedian-actor who says he would finally make a “White Chicks” sequel if AI could spare him the seven-hour daily prosthetic makeup grind — welcoming the technology as a labor-saving tool.
In his words
I don’t want to sit in makeup seven hours again for 60 days… Nah, AI is coming. So, I got to get in makeup two times, and then the AI will do the work. I’m down for that.
Biography
Marlon Wayans (born 1972) is a comedian and actor and a member of the Wayans family comedy dynasty, known for “Scary Movie,” “White Chicks,” “Requiem for a Dream,” and a busy stand-up and streaming career. He has become a candid interview subject on how new technology touches the craft.
AI as a way back to “White Chicks”
Appearing on “The Breakfast Club” in September 2025, Wayans said the one thing keeping him from a “White Chicks” sequel was the punishing prosthetic-makeup process — seven hours a day for 60 days on the original. His solution was AI: get into the chair a couple of times to establish the look, then let the technology handle the rest. “I’m down for that,” he said.
His framing is unapologetically practical — AI as a way to remove physical drudgery from performance rather than to replace the performer. It is a lighter, working-actor’s embrace of the tools that many of his peers view with suspicion.
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