Chris Rock is being sued over his latest documentary, but apparently he feels he has nothing to be worried about, and is shaking off the suit.
A woman by the name of Regina Kimball is suing the comedian claiming that he stole the idea for his documentary, Good Hair, from her film, Nappy Roots.
Rock blogged this morning about the suit;
“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.”
Interesting point he makes that’s for sure! Surely she’s just using this as an excuse for some sort of a pay day. If anything at least someone out there will be interested in seeing her movie now!
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