Wendy Williams Laughs at Aaliyah Biopic Backlash!!!
Over the weekend we all probably saw the highly anticipated Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B movie on Lifetime and today Wendy Williams Laughs at Aaliyah Biopic Backlash.
While Timbaland and others like most all Aaliyah fans weighed in on the poor casting choices made by Lifetime when it came to the Omar Epps looking R Kelly, the Asian looking and thin Missy Elliott, The light-skinned muscled out TImbaland and the tall basketball player looking Damon Dash – all who player a serious role in her life. Not portraying Aaliyah’s music family properly was a direct insult to Aaliyah and all who were mentioned in the biopic, but that doesn’t seem to effect Wendy.
Wendy only cared about the ratings and one of her fans weighed in and said it best with this response:
“It wasn’t about the ratings, it was to see how well the movie was and how truthful. You did a crappy job regardless of the ratings. All you did Ms. Williams was turn it into a joke. Did you happen to see the twitter meme’s? You & Lifetime are a joke and in the process you dishonored everyone from the memory of Aaliyah to the actors hired to portray in the movie.”
Instead in classic Wendy fashion she was unapologetic telling her Wendy Show audience:
“I see my Aaliyah movie broke the Internet this weekend! Errbody got an opinion. Well, I must tell you, whether you love or hate, you watched. It was the second-highest rated movie on all of cable this year so far. Not just Lifetime. All of cable.”
Check Wendy gloating:
Wendy…we get it, you made your coins, but as a woman of integrity and a woman who prides herself on her work we are disappointed with you! You of all people, who “claimed you loved Aaliyah” should have put your foot down on the casting. We understand you came in the project late, but if you knew the casting was that atrocious, you should have said something. No disrespect to any of those actors on the film, but the should NOT have been cast. Aaliyah role was the only one close. However, the rest of the cast looks like three blind mice were involved and you of all people shocked us that you let it slide.
Aaliyah deserves to a biopic like the Biggie Smallz film, but only if it’s done properly. This films was a bunch of hype and when we watched it, it came off like a stale doughnut you just want to throw away.
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