Mike Epps Says Richard Pryor’s Widow Killed Biopic Because He ‘Didn't Screw’ Her

Mike Epps said he wouldn’t be playing Richard Pryor in a potential biopic because he spurned the romantic interest of Pryor’s widow, Jennifer Lee Pryor.

On the newest episode of the All The Smoke podcast, Epps told the hosts, “I was gonna play Richard Pryor man, and then his wife—I didn’t, I didn’t screw his wife, his ex-wife and she got mad.”

Epps recently played the comedy legend in HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty series. However in 2014, director Lee Daniels announced that Epps would play Pryor in an upcoming biopic that would’ve been produced by Harvey Weinstein, but the project never came to fruition due to Daniels backing out to focus on Empire.

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