- Hey What's up?
It's Marlon Wayans from the movie "Sextuplets",
and I'm going to break down a scene shot by shot.
Put on your seat belts,
'cause I'm playin' everybody.
(suspenseful music)
- Where my smokes?
- I didn't bring any smokes.
- Oh (slams table aggressively) hell no!
I know you did not
show up to a prison without no damn smokes.
That's like going to the
Boom Boom room and not bringing singles.
- We filmed this scene over a course of 3 days.
When I do these characters, it's seven hours of makeup.
Sometimes seven and a half hours.
After that we'd film for 14 to 16 hours.
After I filmed Russell,
I had to come in the next day as Dawn.
I would sleep 'till 3:30 in the morning,
and I have to be back to work to get in
seven and a half hours of makeup for Dawn,
and then an hour of beauty makeup.
And the lady wanna make me all beautiful,
and I was like no boo!
I'm Dawn, black is already beautiful,
so no on the beauty makeup.
- Ain't no body gonna rub on your little
cling-clong for free.
My dude.
- Russell.
- In terms of the eye line, Titus was the director.
I love and he did such a great job,
but he was just so like, "You're looking here".
"If you could just look right there."
I'm like, "You want me to redo this entire
15 minute take 'cause my eye line was off?"
Hey, let's just say Russell got a loose eye.
Maybe he just looks the wrong way.
But you had to be very precise.
So sometimes he put the actors there,
but they would move a lot.
And so when I had to act, what he would do is
he would put the stick there
because the stick don't move.
So I would have to make sure
that's Alan's eye line right there,
and stay right there for Alan
and remember where Alan was
the entire time that I'm filming.
- The guards did a full pat down.
How the hell you get that in here?
- Well, in the World War II prison comedy
"Hogans Heroes."
Colonel Hogan once duped the buffoonish
Sergeant Schultz, by hiding a monkey wrench
way deep in his anus.
- Do you know what?
- Way up there by undigested food.
- This scene?
70% improv.
See, the thing about me is I never really learned the lines.
Because I always was creating new lines.
I would learn it just so I know what the beginning,
middle, end is.
But for, I like to improvise which drove everybody crazy.
Ion know what Dawn's gone prepare that day.
- (groans)
- I get the point, thank you.
- Be quiet damn!
You lucky you didn't grow up with me.
I swear I would've beat yo ass.
(passes gas)
- You smell that?
That's a high wipe, he stink.
- Everything that I'm recording,
I would have to play back when I'm Dawn
and put it in my ear and there'd be a ear wig.
So I would hear Russell talking to me when I'm Dawn.
And then I'm reacting to what Russell did as Dawn.
Like Russell when he picks in his butt.
I knew that I was gonna say as Dawn,
"Ooo he got that high wipe."
- Rick was the producer and writing partner on this.
And Mike Titus who's my director.
They would be like "What are you doing?"
"Why would you pick in your butt?"
And I'd be like, I know what I'm doing.
And then I'd be like (sniffs) oh see,
he got that high wipe.
Nobody knew I was gonna do it, but I did.
- Whoa, Boom Boom room?
So, you're a stripper?
- (slams table) What the hell?
A stripper and exotic dancer are different.
- We figured out what kind of look
we wanted for Dawn.
You know we wanted the corn rows,
but the sexy ones the sisters wear.
Cause she ain't grimy she always ghetto fabulous.
The thing about it is, Dawn is a she big boned.
So that requires a prostetic,
and they would glue it to my face with cold glue.
And everybody is like well you can
sleep in the chair.
No you can't.
It feels like someones playing a prank on you.
And then they put the neck on.
And then with this character, she had big chest.
And that was another 15 pounds of prostetic.
And then we put a costume on top of that.
And we walked into this little jail place,
which was a real jail.
- So get your life right boo.
- My bad.
- And exotic dancer incorporate years of
hard dance trainin into her whole routine.
- I am a method actor in order for me to do Dawn,
who was a stripper.
I did alotta research when I went to Atlanta,
which is the strip club or
exotic dance capitol of the world...
outside of Vegas.
So I do my research.
You think I would just go to see strippers,
but that's not the case.
I'm not that type of dude.
- Yeah
- She take all her years of what she learned
on the horizontal pole
and she just bring it to the vertical pole,
and add a little bit of this to it
and add a little bit of this.
- Please don't do that.
- You see this?
Here, here, here.
Shift, shift, shift.
Pla, pla.
Plie, releve, ass on face.
- So I learned watching this one girl
that was at the strip club.
She was doing these elegant ballet moves.
And then she would just twerk and pop her butt.
It look like a video game.
And then she'd get back up and
be in like fifth position.
And I went to LaGuardia high school,
so we took dance.
And I'm watching her use like plie, releves.
And I cracked a joke to my nephew
who was sitting next to me.
And I said what does she do?
Does she mix the two of dem together?
And then I looked at the vertical pole,
and I was like oh I see,
it's a stripper pole like this,
but like this it's a balance beam.
And so that's where plie,
releve, ass on face came from.
- [Both] Plie, releve, ass on face.
- Sashay, sashay, ass on face.
- All this stuff that she's doing,
the pop,pop,pop.
That came outta left field (laughs)
I don't even know.
- That's how it get down.
So you go get your education right boo boo.
- Ah, okay.
(determined music)
- (groans)
- As Russell I'm in my big suit,
I'm acting, against nobody.
Cause half the time nobody knew
the rhythm of how I was going to say things.
We had body doubles,
it didn't matter because
they would mess up my timing.
So I would do it with a ball,
or a piece of tape on a stick.
I would just be talking to myself.
- My wife is pregnant and she's
gonna be giving birth in a couple weeks.
- Are you serious.
That just warmed my heart.
(deep breath) Is it yours?
- What?
- So we're coming at three two thirty in the morning.
Me as a producer I kept forcing my call,
which means normally you're supposed to get
12 hours turn around,
so you can rest, take a proper poop,
maybe throw your kids in the air a few times.
I didn't have this the entire movie.
Everybody's coming in and they're having
their little breakfast, they're all happy.
I'm miserable because
I've been there for seven in a half hours
and I got 40 pounds of makeup on me.
And Atlanta is hot, and it's humid,
it just feels like there's a big person on your back
breathing on you saying all "H" words.
Hey Harold, how's Heather huh?
- Yeah it's mine.
- Mm sound a little suspect to me.
These hoes be out here okurrr!
(determined music)
- And you're supposed to start the scene
for who's gonna lead the charge.
Which would've been Dawn.
But the way the camera and the lighting was set up,
it'd be better if we shot Russell on his own.
And then we shot Alan and Dawn.
I have about 52 personalities,
that's why I can play seven characters
or is it six?
- (heavy breathing)
(yells loudly)
- I'd be under all this makeup, I'd be hot,
I'd be exhausted, and I'd still want to improvise,
which is crazy.
The vending machine, we had no idea
he was gonna do all the things that
he wound up doing.
Like reaching his hand up in there,
and you know struggling to get that.
There was three takes of me just going
(claps hand) lets go for it.
That became a B story within the scene
just tryna get the Cookie Crisp
out the vending machine.
So I hope you enjoyed going through that scene,
shot by shot.
That was a lot of fun to revisit.
Please check out "Sextuplets."
Only on Netflix.
(intense orchestra string music)