It has been more than ten years since Shawn and Marlon debuted on TV in the series "The Wayans Brothers," and since then, they have scored on the big screen with movies like "Scary Movie" and "White Chicks. A wannabe dad mistakes a vertically challenged criminal on the lam as his newly adopted son.
Their brother, Keenen Ivory Wayans, directed it. Shawn and Marlon not only star in "Little Man" but (in typical Wayans fashion) they also wrote and helped produce the movie. No surgery."Īdded Shawn, "There was a little actor named Linden Porco who played Marlon's body double, So I did all the scenes with him and, in post(production), we added Marlon's head." Posing as an abandoned toddler, a very small fugitive (Marlon Wayans) from the law tricks a couple (Shawn Wayans, Kerry Washington) into taking him in. "It wasn't no nip and tuck… They didn't, like, cut me in half. "They digitally took my head and put it on … another person's body," explained Marlon. So how did they make Marlon look 2 1/2 feet tall? "When I was little, it was just me in a crib.
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"There's pictures of Shawn and everybody holding Shawn," Marlon said. From live music on the plaza to movie nights, there is never a dull moment Dedicated to making a positive impact, Little Mans Scoop for Scoop program. "What are you talking about? Shut up!" bantered his brother. I was never a cute baby," Marlon explained. In order to get into the house to get the loot back, Calvin pretends to be an abandoned baby, left on Darryl and Vanessa's doorstep. Little Man A pint-sized thief poses as a baby and tricks a couple into taking him in so he can retrieve a stolen gem he hid in the wife's purse. They are chased by the police, and Calvin hides the stone in the purse of the executive Vanessa Edwards, whose husband Darryl Edwards wants to have a baby. The woman (named Vanessa, played by Kerry Washington) is married to a man named Darryl, played by Shawn. After leaving the prison, the dwarf criminal Calvin Sims joins to his moron brother Percy to steal an expensive huge diamond in a jewelry for the mobster Walken. During a botched heist, he slips a diamond into a woman's purse. Marlon plays Calvin, a little person who also happens to be a jewel thief (with a partner played by Tracy Morgan). The movie is such a stew of situations that there's a good chance the brothers will be cooking something up on The Early Show somewhere down the road. (They say it cost about $60 million to make the film.) Unfortunately, that is also lost when he passes away. And Shawn and Marlon promptly agreed to do just that, if "Little Man" makes $120 million at the box office. Troubled by his parents strained relationship, Akash's only beacon of happiness is his grandfather.