Marlon and Shawn Wayans were the day’s guests of The View on Thursday (June 4), supporting the release of their long-awaited sequel, Scary Movie 6, and Marlon revealed exactly how much he got paid for a character that became legendary on In Living Color.
Shawn Wayans, who is one of the youngest of the 10 now-adult kids in the family, said that he and Marlon used to do impressions for their elder siblings “all the time” when they came home.
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