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While at BET's "106 and Parks" anniversary party, "Extra's" Terri Seymour and AJ Calloway spoke with Oscar winner Jamie Foxx, who mentioned that fellow Oscar winner Halle Berry would be joining him and Martin Lawrence in 'The Skank Robbers.'
"I love Halle. We're working on a movie together at the beginning the year next year. Myself, Martin Lawrence and Halle [called 'The Skank Robbers']. It's a Sheneneh and Wanda movie, the characters we played in 'In Living Color.' We rob banks from Northern California to Southern California. It's gonna be hot."
Both characters were part of the Fox TV Network during the nineties as Foxx played Wanda on 'In Living Color' and Lawrence played Sheneneh on his show 'Martin.'
This is a film that has been talked about for some time and has yet to be greenlit.
The last time Berry did a comedy film was in 1997 when she starred in 'B.A.P.S.,' and that film was from New Line Cinema. Any notion that she might reprise her Nilsa character from the film is pointless.
Berry is currently film 'Dark Tide' with Olivier Martinez. The Ohio native is set to star in the film 'Shoe Addicts Anonymous,' about four different women with nothing in common but their love for shoes and their 7.5 shoe size. In between films, Berry is slated to star on Broadway in Katori Hall's 'The Mountaintop,' where she will portray a hotel maid who delivers a meal to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the evening before his assassination.
Talk is cheap until production starts and Foxx has a lot of his plate with several TV deals in the works with his production company. "With my new company, No Brainer with 'Chain Letter' director Deon Taylor, we sold five shows in four months. There's a show at NBC called 'Tommy's Little Girl,' a show at TNT called 'Miss Philly,' a sketch comedy show that's gonna be on FOX and 'Damage Control' over at HBO," stated the Texas native.
Meanwhile, Lawrence's next film will be the third installment in the 'Big Momma' series, 'Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son.' Lawrence will be paired with Brandon T. Jackson as he reprises his role as FBI agent Malcolm Turner. Nia Long will not be included in the film.
It would be nice to see the film get made, but with everyone involved having plenty of projects to keep them busy, I'm just not sure the stars are lining up soon enough.
In the meantime, watch the faux trailer with both actors in character.