Chris Rock is being sued by a woman named Regina Kimball for allegedly stealing the idea for his documentary Good Hair from her documentary Nappy Roots.
And, now, Chris just weighed in on the situation:
“It’s weird because I called her to see the movie, and told her I was doing a movie, so it’s not like anybody was hiding it. It’s like, ‘I’m thinking about doing a movie on hair.’ It was really to watch it to make sure I wasn’t going to make that movie. The only similarity is her movie goes to India and mine goes to India, but I don’t even know if she went to India. I think she got footage. That’s about it. Her movie is about [hair care entrepreneur Madam] C.J. Walker, histories of hair, men, women… She’ll probably be able to sell it now because of Good Hair, but it’s not humorous at all. If you did two documentaries on George Washington, there’d be some similarities, but they’re not the same documentary. We’ll see what happens. I guess I’ll talk to my lawyers later today.”
Ha!
He raises a good point we didn’t think about before. People make documentaries on the same things all the time, but they tell different stories.
Now it seems like Chris knew what he was doing!
[Image via WENN.]
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