Oprah Winfrey Cast As Richard Pryor’s Grandmother in Biopic

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Jacky Jasper
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Oprah, 60, will be playing Richard Pryor’s brothel running grandmother, Marie Carter, in Lee Daniels’ duplicitous biopic on the legendary comedian.

Pryor, who died from a heart attack in 2005, had a notoriously complicated relationship with his grandmother. Pryor grew up in a house of prostitution run by Marie, when at 10 years old, his mother Gertrude walked out on the family.

This is in addition to the recent announcement (which also included Oprah along side Daniels), that Mike Epps will play Pryor.

“@theoriginalbigdaddy, @eppsie, and me just finished a great 1st read session. #RichardPryorMovie,”

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  1. Knowing Oprah’s style, she’ll play it like a slave. Sounds like this movie is going to stink.

    • LMMFAO ….is she taking over the hollywierd quintessential slave role from the great Cicely Tyson?

    • Oprah gonna own that role! She probably already knew she was gonna be the one to play the Madam. All those African girls she has to play with when nobody’s looking. Oprah like giving her hoes the commands.

  2. Yeah, I heard the real grandmother was tough as nails, but loved Rich. Had to be in her line of business, JoJo dancer was a good movie. Underrated

    • Correct. I was just about to say, this sounds like JoJo Dancer. We already saw that. What could Lee Daniels have to add to the story that Richard Pryor left out? He told his own story. This is ridiculous.

      • they want money…even if it mean re-telling dead folks shit. They dont care, they’ll do that shit again so they can get bread again.

        • ‘they want money’
          Yep. Just like Solomon Northrup’s story (12 Years a Slave) had already been done well by Avery Brooks and Co. They try to act like these stories haven’t already been told.
          Anyway, I hope this turns out good.

  3. When I heard her name with M.E. I knew she was gonna put herself in the movie. She gonna be yaass sir’n and portray Richard ‘ s grandma as ni&&a as she plays all her roles. Just cause she’s in it I’ll wait for bootleg.

    • WHY YOU THINK THEY CALLED HER OPTAH, AS IN OPPORTUNIST, BYTCH WANNA ONLY BE BLK AND RECOGNIZE ANYTHING BLK IZ WHEN SHE CAN HAVE ROLE WHERE SHE IZ H.N.I.C…NONE OF THIS BYTCH ROLES UPLIFT BLK WOMAN ..SHE DONT GOT NO LOVE FOR BLK PPL PERIOD, WHY SUPPORT ANY OF THESE BLK TRAITORS …WE MAKING THEM RICHER AND THEY GIVING IT RIGHT BACK TO MASSA NOT YOU STOOPID …FUK ALL THIS SHIT, YALL KEEP ON GETTING PIMP THA FUK OUT BY YOUR SO CALL LOVE FOR BLK CELEBS , HUH WHERE SHE TRY TO BUILD HER VERY 1st SCHOOL OF LEZBO IN SOUTH AMERICA WHICH FAILED LIKE EVEYTHING SHE DO ,..DONT DO SHIT FOR THE BLK IN CHI EVEN NOW AFTER ALL THEM YOUNG BLK MURDERS ,..SAYING ALL THEY WANT IZ JORDANS AND IPODS THE NERVE OF THAT SCUNT BYTCH….IMMA LMAO AND PUFF ON THIS GUD SHIT!

        • AND SAID ,..ALL MY LIFE I HAD TO FIGHT,I HAD TO FIGHT MY DADDY ETC,..I LOVES HARPO GOD KNOWS I DO, BUT ID KILL HIM DEAD FO I LET HIM BE ME ,..PRICELESS/ CLASSIC.. MAMA I LOVED THAT SHIT!! LMAO

            • “I LOVES HARPO GOD KNOWS I DO”…@GLOK I AIN’T TRYIN TO GAS YOU, BUT YOU GOT A SISTA CRYING. @DARADIANT 1, WE GOTTA CONTINUE THIS FRIDAY NIGHT LAUGH FEST…GET BUSY TWO TIMES! LMAO

            • Sat in that jail, I sat in that jail til I near about done rot to death. I know what it like to wanna go somewhere and cain’t. I know what it like to wanna sing… and have it beat out ‘ya…etc. I ‘members that day in the store with Miss Millie – I’s feelin’ real down. I’s feelin’ mighty bad. And when I seed you – I know’d there is a God. I know’d there is a God. LMAOOOOO

            • She should! Harpo beats on Sophia, Sophia beats on Harpo some more. And in between the beatings, the churens coming! Lmao!

            • LML @Radiant. OMG, I’m trippin’. Ready to get out of here and pick up that Henney! Boogie Down style. LOL

            • how did shug avery in the film somehow knew that celie was gonna kill albert.

              shug and celie were lovers and they might have secretly discussed killing mister.

              remember there was voodoo rituals ion the film.

      • Your point is well taken and with all of her money, she can’t even own her own Movie studio with her OWN distribution, she is only window dressing

        • SHIT SHE JUST DONATES TO WHITE ESTABLISHMENTS ..ALONE CAN TAKE CARE OF THE POOR HOODS IN CHI ,..SHE DONT CARE ABOUT BLK PPL KOONYE THE SAME WHY DO WE CARE IF THEY DIE TOMORROW THEY OUT TO DESTROY YOUR MIND BODY AND SOUL ,.. FUK HER MONEY ALL SHE GOT TO DO IS TELL AMERICA TO HELP THE SITUATION IN HER CITY WHERE SHE BLEW DA FUK UP GIVE BACK TO THE LESS FORTUNATE ,..I MEAN WOULD GUD IZ HAVING RICHES AND NOT GIVE IT BACK TO THOSE WHO LOOK LIKE YOU IF YOU REALLY GIVE A FUK ABOUT YOUR PPL FUK YOUR BLK EXPLOITATION FILMS … WHERE’S BILL COSBY BIG MOUTH ON THIS SHIT,…OL SENILE MUH FUKKA!!

      • He hates every black person who has succeeded financially. It’s sad. A lot of black folk suffer from that same ailment of the mind.

        • I HATE EVERY BLK PERSON DAT SOLD THEY SOUL TO SATAN ,..THAT TOOK AN OATH , DAT SERVE SUNDAY AS A DAY OF WORSHIP , THAT WOULD KILL LOVE ONES JUST TO LIVE A GUD LIFE OF FORTINE AND FAME ,..THAT WOULD SELL THEY OWN KIND DOWN THA RIVER, SIDE WITH THE ENEMY AND TURN ON THEY OWN PPL ,…CUSS MY GOD OUT THE TRUE AND LIVING GOD ,..BLK DEVILS THAT WOULD JOIN AN AGENDA TO TEAR APART THE SOULS AND MINDS OF THEIR OWN KIND FOR DIRTY LUCRE ,..SO IF THESE ARE YOUR BLK SUCCESSFUL PPL FUK THEM I HOPE THEY ALL PERISH IN FUKKING LAKE OF FIRE YOU DAMN RIGHT, GLOK DONT CARE ABOUT BLK PPL MONEY OR SUCKCESS ,..YAHSHUA SAID TAKE THE TARES BIND THEM AND CAST THEM INTO FIRE BURN THEM …BUT GATHER THE WHEAT ..WHEAT AND TARES ..WE HAVE BLK TARES IN OUR RACE THAT HOLD US BACK FROM OUR CREATOR ,..YAHUAH !

          • @Glok9, You’re On Point! These Coons need to learn we don’t need them, they NEED US. Blacks set trends if the Black community buys it then it’s a GO, if We don’t then IT’s A NO GO! AS soon as the Whites find out The COONS no longer have Power and can’t sell their COONERY in the Community, they’ll drop them Jigaboos like Yesterday’s News! They all say they don’t Owe US anything and they’re the “NEW Black” which is really the Ole SAMBOW. Then WE should PART WAYS because we don’t owe them S*ht either except for our utter disgust at their massive deception. Whites created them and Whites can have them. BOYCOTT!

          • EXACTLY ..LOVE THIS , YOU GET WHAT IM SAYING ,..YOU SEE HOW THE ACT ONCE THEY GET ONOP .HEY STICK THEY NOS UP AT US ,..HEN WE THE PPL GOTHROUGHT SOMETHING ,..BUT WANT TO CRY BLK FOUL WHENTHEY GET INTO SOMETHING ,..FUK THEMTHY LIE TO SAIFY MASA THEN LET MASSA HANDLE THEY SHIT NOT US ..BOYOTT THEM FUKS! CUZ WHITES ARENT GOING TO WATCH THIS SHIT…THEY MILKING OFF US CUZ THE KNOW WE ARE THE ECONOMY’S BEST CONSUMERZ ..WE SPEND MONEY BUT WHERE DOES IT GO AND WHY WE DONT HAVE JACKSHIT TO COUNT FOR !

          • ONCE THEY GET ON TOP TURN DOWN AND STICK THEY NOSE UP AT US,WHEN WE PPL GO THROUGH OUR ISSUES,BUT WANT TO GET BLKR THAN THOU WHEN WHITEY TURN ON THEY AZZ FUK THEM, LET THE SAME WHITE FOLKS THEY SHUKKING AND JIVING FOR HANDLE THEY SHITNTUS .THEN THEY’LL SEE DAT THE PPL UNITED CANT NEVER BE DEFEATED NOR BAMBOOZLED BY THE BULLSHIT NO MORE SHALUM !

        • He is a Hebrew Israelite. You know the ones that stand on the corner, screaming bible verses at people, insulting Black women, wearing outfits looking like Shonuffs gang in The Last Dragon. That’s why he is typing in all caps.

          • You got that right Rah. Just a hollerin’ fool who does say something funny once in a while.
            He’s starting to border on being sexually over the top to some women who have not encouraged him. Ick.

      • @GUF ,…I DONT CARE IF YOU FOLLOW ME OR NOT IM NOT HERE FOR YOU SO I COULD GIVE A FUK HOW PUZZLING AND HOW DIFFICULT TO DIG WHAT IM SAYING , THESE NIGGAZ ARE YOUR IDOL OR HERO THEY FUK IZ SO HARD TO UNDERDIG WHAT I SAID ? YOUR AN ENIGMA ..IMA DISCIPLE OF THE MOST HIGH GOD ,..NOW YOU GOT THAT, WHY NOT DUMP THEM, THE FUK ARE THEY DOING FOR BLK FOLKS ..WHEN SHIT ARIZE OR WHEN WE AS BLK FIND OURSELVES IN TERMOIL DONT NONE NONE OF THEM MUH FUKKAZ GET INVOLVED ..TRY TO PUT OUT TWEETS FUK A TWEET, AS SOON AS MASSA HEAR IT, THEY TAKE DOWN THE BLK PANTHER TWEET CUZ MASSA DONT LIKE NO REVOLUTIONARY PAID HOUSE NIGGA EATING OFF THEY PLATES,… SO YEAH , FUK YOUR BLK IDOLS NIGGA!

  4. She better play it properly. His grandma didn’t play at all. I’m pretty sure the family will let Oprah know she better not mess it up.

    • SHE GONNA MAKE YOU BLK WOMEN LOOK LIKE A BUNCH WHORES AND SCUM OF THE EARTH WATCH HOW THEY HAVE MASSA IN EVERY ROOM TAPPING BLK SNATCH AND MAKE BROTHAZ CLUELESS AS A FUK IN THIS FUKTARD FLIK!!,..ENJOY ,..I BOYCOTT !

        • WHY DO YOU MAKE IT YOUR DUTY TO BE MY PERSONAL DIK STRAP ON HSK ,..YOU WAKE LOOKING FOR ME FAGGOT ??

        • GUF DONT WORRY WHO FUK I AM ..DO I INTRIGUE YOU I HOPE YOU A CHIC TOO,..AND YOU CONVERSATING WITH A TROLL AND ASKING A FUKKING TROLL ABOUT ME IZ HILARIOUS ..UNLESS YOU BOTH ARE CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH ,..CUZ I SURE AINT ASKING TROLLS WHO THA FUK IZ “GUF’, CUZ I DONT GIVE A FUK ABOUT A GUF SO YOU AN PHILLY CAN GO FUK OFF INTO THE TULIPS FOR ALL I CARE!

        • Dam @Guf, U r 1 jealous insecure self hating Uncle Tom
          Your essence and vibe is phucked up
          I know ur type and I detest it. Smh

          @Glok9, U r my kind of people. U keep me rolling up in this camp and I luv ur realness and rawness. U r a real soldier and I appreciate
          your authencity

          • 23:41 YOU CAN SEE GUF IS NOTHING BUT A FUKKING HOMO FOLLOWING ME AROUND THIS BYTCH ,..GUF FUK OFF DUUETTE I DONT SWING YOUR WAY YOU DIK RIDING COCK STRAP!,..THANK YOU LOVE I APPRECIATE YOU 1 MIILION TIMES !

        • IKR? If anyone dare say a word to Glok this bitch is on you like flies on crap.

          • IKR YOU AND YOUR FUK BUDDY GUF MUSTA SEEN EACH OTHER BEFORE CUZ YOU 2 GAYLORDS WHO I NEVER MET OR EVEN SPOKEN TOO GOTTAS LOT TO SAY ABOUT ME ..LIKE I SAID DO I INTRIGUE YOU BYTCH AZZ NIGGA OR SOMTHING ,..HOMOz IN AGREEMENT BYTCH ABOUT MY COMMA ..AND YOU HO AZZ NIGGA NEED TO GET OFF YOUR PERIODS SERIOUSLY YOU ACTING LIKE STRAIGHT UP BYTCHES AND PPL CAN SEE IT FAGGOTz ..CANT WAIT TO CHOP YOU FAGz HEADS OFF TIME IZ SHORT !

            • Glok I couldn’t care less what you think of me, but I am not a “gaylord” or “faggot.”
              I am a girly girl who thinks you are repulsive. You are everything I loathe in a man. But, to each his own. You certainly have a lot of female fans here. Enjoy.

            • YOU HO WHO MAD I DONT FUK WITH YOU UPTIGHT LAME PUNK AZZ BYTCH ..I DONT CARE WHAT YOU THINK OF ME YOU DONT KNOW ME BYTCH JUST WHAT I TELL YOUR STINK AZZ, PLUS YOU HAD 3 DAYZ TO WHAT EVER THA FUK YOU WANTED AND YOUR SISSY FRIEND GUF , YOU YOU TWO TRANNIES CHOSE TO RIDE MY COCK THIS WEEKNED, I WILL ENJOY DAT YOU JEALOUS HOOKA!

            • HAHA THIS BYTCH WAITED ALL NIGHT FOR MY RESPONSE YOU HAPPY NOW HO ,..YOU MAY HATE AND THINK IM REPULSIVE AND SHIT BUT YOU KNOW MY COMMENTS GETS YOU OFF ,..YOUR CUNT FEELS RELIEF AFTER FUKKING WITH YOUR BOI ,..I WILL NEVER EVER STICK MY PENIS IN YOUR STINK FISHY SNATCH OK, YOU MAD CUZ YOU KNOW I WILL NEVER FUK YOU NOT EVEN WITH MY DEAD DOG DIK !

      • NO BEDWENCH ,..YES MASSA HAD BLK MALES AS BED WENCHES TOO AND THIS ONE OF THEM …FAGGOT WANNA REPORT BACK TO MASSA WHAT THIS FIELD NIGGA SAYING OR DOING ON HSK ..OUT OF NOWHERE COMES THESE LAME AZZ GROUPIE NIGGAz …YOU MOMMA PUZZY IS MY FIRST LANGUAGE YOU SHOULD SEE HER LIPS TALKING IN TONGUEz WHEN I STUFF HER BYTCH BOI!

  6. HA DAT NEW AGE BYTCH PLAYS SUBMISSIVE SLAVE IN REAL LIFE TOO, WHAT THAT WHITE CRAKKA TOLD HER OVERSEAz ..YOUR BLK AZZ CANT AFFORD THIS BAG BYTCH ,..WHAT MAMMY SAY ,..OH MASSA WE SORRY WE DIDNT NO OUR PLACE OVER HERE ,..WE SICK? …
    “I DIDNT MEAN NO HARM MADAME I THOUGHT YOU KNEW WHO I WAS IZ ALL” DAT PUFFING EYED HUFFING DRAGON, DONT DEAL WITH NO REAL BLK MEN JUST FAG CUZ SHE A FAG HAG TOO,..DANIEL,PERRY,OBAMA,JAYZ YOU NAME EM SHE GONNA MAKE LIL RICH A BYTCH NIGGA(FAG) IN THIS MOVIE CANT TRUST ! FUK A BOOT LEG,..RIP RP!

        • “I DIDNT MEAN NO HARM MADAME I THOUGHT YOU KNEW WHO I WAS IZ ALL”, CTFUUUU! I can’t mess with him today @DaRadiant1

        • HAHA I LOVE IT SIS BECAREFUL NOW,.. YOU BEEN WARNED LMAO , MAMI I CANT STAND THIS BYTCH ,..LIKE THA GOT SONG HSK KEEP RECYCLING IN OUR EARS REDUNDANTLY,.. THEY CRY WOE IZ ANYBODY LISTENING,.. THEY CRY WOOE DOES ANYBODY CARE ,..RIP TO ALL THEM FALLEN YOUNG VIC AT EXPENSE OTHERz I MEAN BLK DEVILS AMONG US TAKING ON BLK SKIN REAL SHIT…MY PPL, WHO FEED DEMONICALLY OFF OUR BLOOD AND SPIRITUAL ENERGY,..THEY CRY WOE!

  7. It’s kind of strange for a so-called Billionaire to latch on to a Homo Film Director like Lee Daniels, when most people Oprah has enough power to produce her own films, I believe Oprah is put out there for window dressing to keep to make it seem as though to the world that Blacks in America have no complaints about racism in America, when for the mere fact that Oprah, a so-called Billionaire can’t hardly do anything on her own in a big way is proof that institutional racism in America, bu is alive and well, I may see this film, but I don’t think Mike Epps is right for the part either, Richard Pryor was an average height guy who was skinny and used his physical characteries for his comedic routines,as for his grandmother, I would have rather seen Phyicia Rashad play that role, she is a very good actress, even GREAT on stage.

    • @Ent Goon, You should have seen the photo with Oprah, Epps And Daniels. They look like they have turned Epps out and if they havent, they r certainly working on it. And I dont mean that in a good way
      jmo

  8. If Lee Daniels is directing, her performance will be salacious and cruel. No mammies here, she’ll be a bonafide whore because Lee Daniels hates Black women. Her role as the cheating wife in “The Butler” was a setup for this one.

    The backdrop of the brothel is perfect for Daniels to get off on his twisted views of Black female sexuality. Expect scenes of sexual deviance and cruelty because in his hands our sexual nature becomes a bludgeon he can beat us with.

    I don’t like anything this dude makes. He’s so hateful, I can’t see how he walks around.

    • You may be onto something. Ever since Monsters Ball, I have had that same feeling about LD and BW. Precious was the nail in the coffin.

  9. After watching the shameful racist coverage of the events in Ferguson this coon oughta put her money into a black news channel. Her and tylesha both.

    • TOTALLY AGREE HERE ,.WHERE THA FUK IZ BIG MOUTH OPTAH NOW ,..BUT SHE WANT YOU TO GO OUT WATCH HER SATANIC FILM WITH SPIELBURG, SHE ADORES HER MASS LIKE A GOOD RICH BED WENCH SHE IZ,..FUK HER BIG FAT JUICY RICH AZZ ..SHEDEVIL!!

    • Damn Smarter, usually agree with you, but I thought MSNBC did a really good job.

      And to GUF, MSNBC made it very clear that the trouble makers were outside agitators. The bulk of Ferguson is made up of lower middle class folks who own their homes. That is NOT a crowd who f*cks up their neighborhoods.

      • I caught or call myself monitoring CNN. NBC is definitely more balanced. They pissed me off letting that gf of the cop tell a third party story over and over. You didn’t hear the girl trayvon was TALKING TO until the trial. It was utterly biased bullshit IMO. Had the jury heard her story calm and with no attitude from her maybe one or two vote differently.

    • They were trouble makers and gang bangers who were brought in to make black people look bad.

      Ferguson is a lower middle class community. They were NOT going to destroy their own shit and they are tax-paying home owners.

      that is why they were protesting. THEY PAY TAXES and the cops salaries are based on taxes and they were not going to be told by these cops to stay inside. Fuck that.

      So they had a constitutional right to assemble and that was undermined by rioting and looting people from different locations.

    • @Glok9, u are right. In fact 1 of the people from over there said that the journalist was killed last year some time.
      And the last true President we had (that was actually voted in)
      Was John F. Kennedy

      • SMOKE AND MIRRIORS AINT NONE OF THAT SHIT REAL ..THIS PREZ GOTTA WAY WITH ALOT OF BULLSHIT ,..AND IN HIS 2YRS LEFT WHERE DA FUK DOES HE THINK HE GONNA CALL HOME ??

    • Yeah U seen that shit too! And that horse and not to mention that Masonic time capsule! And what makes it so bad that the airport if U look at an area view, the runways are shape like a swastika sign! I’m telling yall, we need to band together cause shit done got real!!

      • It’s been “real” sista, for quite some time. They’re just going back “old school”, being blatantly disrespectful murderous, non chalant ass mutha f*ckas! There are going to be “casualties of war,” we as a people just have to step our game up, by ANY means necessary. Love & peace loved ones! 🙂

    • GUF LOOK UP THESE NUTS I KNEW YOU WAS A DIK RIDING FAGGOT FOLLOWING ME ,..BYTCH NIGGA YOU KNEW NOTHING OF MK NAIOMI TIL O POSTED THAT SHIT TWICE AND GONNA TELL PPL LOOK IT UP LIKE IT WAS YOUR FIND ..LMAO DIK RIDER FUK YOUR SECOND HAND KNOWLEDGE YOU BIT FROM A NIGGA YOU CLAIM DOESNT HAVE ENGLISH AS HIS FIRST LANGO AND DONT USE COMMA BUT YOU CAN PICK WHAT YOU WANT OUT OF MY SHIT TO MAKE YOURSELF SELF SEEM RELEVENT COCK SNIFFER , FUK OFF LAME !!

  11. Can’t we find some new niggas to act? Damn tired of seeing the same ole step n fetch its. Smh this is why I don’t support black movies!

  12. LEE LOOKS BAD IN SOME PICS LIKE HE GOT HIV OR SOMETHING.

    ICE CUBE SAID IT BEST BIG DICKS IN YOUR ASS IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH.

  13. swear black women love talking bout empowerment but they play whores.

    every role oprah was in was about lesbians.

    yeah she played Sophia in color purple but she was cool until her character dissed the white woman and then she was beaten and raped by whites and she went insane and she served the white woman she dissed.

    oprah was humiliated on film back then.

    purple is a sluts color ask semiramis.

  14. imagining Horprah playing a whore is quite shocking but she did do a sex scene with dutty d*ck Terrance Howard!!!!
    she nothing but a flimsy fanning who coons after white people!! this flimsy fanning had Justine Timberlake on her show
    he’s silent racist just like them white pasty fruit cake

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