Yahoo Movies Vanilla Ice Defends 'Racist' Adam Sandler Film: 'It's Not Dances With Wolves'
At least one cast-member in Adam Sandler’s Western comedy appears to have the star’s back.
Controversy swirled around the forthcoming Netflix comedy ‘The Ridiculous Six’ when a group of Native American actors walked off the set on April 26 to protest sections of the script that they found offensive.
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Following the flap, rapper Vanilla Ice (above left), who plays Mark Twain in the film, told TMZ that he doesn’t think the film’s jokes were written in a malicious way.
“It’s a comedy,” he said.
“I don’t think anybody really had any ill feeling or any intent or anything. This movie isn’t [Dances] With Wolves — it’s a comedy.
“They’re not there to showcase anything about anybody — they’re just making a funny movie.”
The music star, who had a cameo in Sandler’s 2012 film That’s My Boy, pointed out that he is solely responsible for reading his lines and didn’t contribute to the script.
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“I am part Choctaw Indian, so I see both sides,” he added.
According to a Gawker report, the script’s jokes includes character names such as Beaver Breath and Sits-on-Face, with one male character asking a female, “How about after this, we go someplace, and I put my peepee in your teepee?”
Director Frank Coraci’s ‘The Ridiculous Six’, a spoof of such Westerns as The Magnificent Seven, was written by Sandler and Tim Herlihy. Will Forte, Taylor Lautner, Danny Trejo and Terry Crews also star.
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