By Fred Topel | Image property of Columbia Pictures.
Martin Lawrence
It’s happened before. Take an edgy, adult comedian and after a few hit movies, they start to go soft. Eddie Murphy does exclusively children’s movies now, and Martin Lawrence has been on a streak from Rebound to the animated movie Open Season.
Martin Lawrence Talks Open Season and Family Films
“Adult humor is my favorite,” he assures us. “Adult humor is my favorite. I like just mixing it up, you know what I mean? Just giving you a little bit of this. If I give you two children films then come back and give you an adult film. I just love mixing it up and not being pegged into one specific thing. This and Rebound I am able to do for my children and for a young kids audience. Other things I do that are for adults, Runteldat and things like that I am able to do for you guys and people who support me.”
That did mean he had to get into a family friendly frame of mind to voice Boog the Bear. Improvising might have been dangerous. “If there was room for it and it needed it and I would try something, I would try and do something that made sense, but I stayed kind of right between the lines because it was animation and it was children. So, I didn’t want to adlib the wrong thing or whatever.”
Open Season opens to theatres this Friday, September 29th.
For the trailers, clips, posters, movie stills and movie info, head over to the Open
Season Movie Page.
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