Did they explain that part? Lonette KcKee who played Ms Drake had a white mother and see she's quiet light skinned. Maybe they though it doesn't matter, but even old man Uncle didn't seem to care his inheritance was going to a black guy and the Uncle said he was a jerk himself
shareHis great uncle was the half brother of his grandmother, his uncle was pure white, his great grandfather then had his grandmother with a black woman and I assume she had children with a black man and so on.
shareUncle Rupert explains it all.
Good God... Pay attention.
He takes about a full minute of time in the prerecorded video to explain why this is so. It almost seemed ridiculous.
I'm guessing that the book was written with the the main character being white. But since Pryor was cast, they had some explaining to do. I could be wrong, that's just a guess.
Yes it was ridiculous, but like Arnie and Devito in Twins, it added to the comedy.
"Look at it this way; in a hundred years who's gonna care?"share
"I'm guessing that the book was written with the the main character being white. But since Pryor was cast, they had some explaining to do."
Because they ABSOLUTELY couldn't have cast(ed) a black man to play the uncle..?
This happens all the time
It's a DNA thing
Let's be politically correct:::
Some slave owner in their past family history boinked a slave girl and she had a baby hence the baby and its offspring are related