“I detest that film. To me, it resembled a farce,” she said.
Over 11 years after Notorious was delivered, Lil Kim is as yet not content with the entertainer that was picked to play her in the film and how she was depicted on screen.
In an ongoing meeting on REVOLT’s “The Fat Joe Show,” the Queen Bee talked about how she totally disagrees with everything inside the film and didn’t care for who played her character. “Yeah, no. No. I hate that movie. To me, it was like a spoof,” the “Crush on You” emcee admitted.
She included, “It was something that I would have never approved. I didn’t like who played me. No. No, no, no, no.”
In the 2009 film, “Power” entertainer and previous 3LW vocalist, Naturi Naughton, played Kim, however the Brooklyn rapper says that she needed to give the job to an emerging actress from her old neighborhood.
“I would go to Brooklyn and find a girl within that period that I feel represents Brooklyn, knows what it’s like to grow up in Brooklyn,” Kim explained. “And then once I got in the movie, and I get a little older, I would play myself from that stage. But from that point, I gotta go to Brooklyn and give some little girl from Brooklyn a chance to really, really show, I know who Lil Kim is for real.”
Kim likewise said that Naturi looked not at all like her and didn’t connect with her before shooting the film.
Before the film was even delivered to people in general, the rap legend made a public statement of disapproval that she wasn’t satisfied with how it turned out.
“The film studio and producers involved were more concerned about painting me as a ‘character’ to create a more interesting storyline instead of a person with talent, self-respect and who was able to achieve her own career success through hard work,” she said back in 2009.
“Even though my relationship with Big was at times very difficult and complicated (as with most relationships we have all experienced at one time or another), it was also genuine and built on great admiration and love for each other. Regardless of the many lies in the movie and false portrayal of me to help carry a story line through, I will still continue to carry his legacy through my hard work and music.”
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