Jada Pinkett Smith’s ‘Nutty Professor’ Wigs Were “Rough” Due to Stylist’s Ignorance About Black Hair
Jada Pinkett Smith says an interaction with her hairstylist on the 1996 Eddie Murphy comedy The Nutty Professor is why the movie was “the last time I didn’t have my own hairstylist.”
During Smith’s latest Red Table Talk episode, the Matrix Reloaded and Girls Trip star said that while working on the film where she played Carla Purty, the love interest to Murphy’s nerdy and kind-hearted academic, Sherman Klump, they put her in bad wigs that illustrated how little the film’s stylists knew about Black hair.
“They put me in some crazy wigs for sure, where people didn’...
During Smith’s latest Red Table Talk episode, the Matrix Reloaded and Girls Trip star said that while working on the film where she played Carla Purty, the love interest to Murphy’s nerdy and kind-hearted academic, Sherman Klump, they put her in bad wigs that illustrated how little the film’s stylists knew about Black hair.
“They put me in some crazy wigs for sure, where people didn’...
- 9/15/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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