A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to what the ultimate payoff would be for that character.
Any time something does that well, you gotta follow up.
Even if we can't do it now, if we work hard enough, eventually, we'll get it done.
For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.
I knew when I was 6. I just knew it; I didn't care about nothing else. If I didn't make it in this world, I would probably be homeless. I gave myself that little to fall back on.
If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.
Now we have to hit them from a different angle.
People are expecting things. In the first one, no one was expecting anything. They were saying, Oh my God, I can't believe these guys are doing this.
The people who watched us on TV followed us into films, and that was our core fan-base, and it grew from there.
The studios want this from us, but it's not all we do. So the next couple of movies we have planned, we want to do just a regular, funny comedy.
There were challenges with production because of the special effects. There are just some things that, although written, special effects just isn't able to do.
They'll say, That's funny, but you can't do that on TV.
We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting.
We are actually about to do the buddy comedy thing. Abbott and Costello... huge fans.
We definitely have our finger on the pulse. You have to keep up. We decide what to watch by what's funny.
We did a lot of press for the last film and now for this one. We don't rest on our laurels.
We don't want to be known as the guys who have just one move to the basket. Plus, that's all choices. There's more than one studio in town-there's seven studios in town!
We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.
We kind of looked at society and turned it into animation. The script is written and now we just have to set it up.
We like writing with each other; it's fun.
We make a family environment, it's fun, everybody knows what needs to be done, Keenen oversees the whole thing, we respect him, he respects us.
We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch.
We still have that same burn, to get that same kind of laughs. So whether the studio wants us to or not, we're going to do it. The money is just a byproduct of coming out with good stuff. Our whole thing is building that rapport with the audience.
We thought it was a rich world, no pun intended, to actually go into and really expose and find the humor in it.
We were raised to look out for one another. Keenen got us early on. He's always been like a brother-father figure to us, from teaching us about women, about the business, acting, writing, everything.
We're happy to prove ourselves in any genre. Bottom line is for us to be consistent, be happy, and continue to be funny.
We've spent a lot of time around women. We have five sisters, and a lot of women work with us, and we study female behavior.
Women don't like advice. They don't want you to fix their problems, they just want you to listen.
You have to step up to the plate, and then hit one out of the park.
You know, these types of characters do exist in this world, who make all kinds of unimportant things really, really important, like shopping at Gucci and Prada.
You lose your privacy, and sometimes, people don't see you as human.
Shawn saved dwarf actor Tyler Wallson from serious injury when a large lighting fixture almost fell on him, but Shawn him out of the way on the set of the movie "Little Man."
Shawn has three children.
Shawn was a presenter at the "Soul Train Comedy Awards."
In the 1996 release "Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood," Shawn played Ashtray.
Shawn was Ray Wilkins in "Scary Movie."
Shawn played Kevin Copeland in the 2004 release "White Chicks."
Shawn starred on The Wayans Bros. from 1995 to 1999 with younger brother Marlon.
Shawn Was the DJ of "In Living Color" as SW1 from 1990 to 1991.
Shawn produced the movies; "Scary Movie", "White Chicks" and "Little Man". He co-produced; "Scary Movie 2" and "Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood". He also produced his TV show; "The Wayans Bros".
Shawn is 6' 2?".
His nickname is "SW.1", which was his DJ name on "In Living Color."
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