White Chicks (2004)
- During the filming of White Chicks, Shawn Wayans improvised one of the most famous lines in the movie.
- The original script for White Chicks was written over a decade before production finally began in 2004.
- Eagle-eyed viewers have noticed a hidden easter egg referencing Keenen Ivory Wayans's previous film in the background of the opening scene.
White Chicks is a 2004 American buddy cop comedy directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans. Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans star as Kevin and Marcus Copeland, two African-American FBI agents who go undercover as white socialite heiresses Brittany and Tiffany Wilson โ using elaborate prosthetic makeup to disguise themselves as blonde white women โ to foil a kidnapping plot targeting the real Wilson sisters. The comedy derived from the extreme disconnect between Kevin and Marcus's street-smart personas and the privileged, shallow world of Hamptons socialites they must convincingly inhabit.
The prosthetic transformation was deliberately unconvincing in a way that became part of the comedy โ that nobody in the film questioned the disguise was itself the joke. White Chicks earned $113 million worldwide on a $37 million budget and became a massive cult comedy, particularly popular with audiences who embraced its shameless, broad humor.
