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Diddy is out promoting something, surely, given the volume of sound bites he’s been given. Either that or he’s just feeling particularly competitive with Kanye West this week. Diddy first claims he wasn’t black enough to star in Tropic Thunder.
He joked: “I have not been in any of Ben Stiller’s movies. I guess I wasn’t black enough to be in Tropic Thunder. Robert Downey Jr. was a little bit blacker. I tried out for the role but I came up short. I put Ben in the video for my single Bad Boy for Life and I thought he would return the favour.”
It sounds suprising that Diddy admitted he ‘came up short’ on acting talent, until you realize he’s referring to his skin color. I think he probably lost the role because of Robert Downey Jr’s superior acting chops, and also his lack of ego. Who wants to be knocking knees with Diddy’s ego for three months? Robert Downey doesn’t have that kind of attitude.
Diddy also likes to manscape, he shared with us, and this wasn’t the first time he’s talked about it.
Sean Combs has a strict maintenance policy for Cassie, or any other lady he’s dating. First order of business: Brazilian waxing. Also, he tells Allure: leg-waxing, brow-threading, manicure and pedicure. But then, giving us a little TMI, he notes, “I shave and groom my private areas. It’s a better presentation for me. If men require women to go through the pain, we should return the favor.”
So Diddy basically wants you to wax from your eyebrows down. At least he has the decency to return the favor. Kudos to Diddy for taking one for the team, and especially to David Beckham for doing the same in those Armani ads.
Diddy is shown at the finale of TRL on 11/16/08. Credit: Bauergriffin
Written by Helen
Posted in P. Diddy
28 Responses to “Diddy: I wasn’t black enough for Tropic Thunder; women should wax”
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He’s gross and deserves an eye roll
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Possibly it wasn’t his lack of blackness, but his inability to keep his mouth from hanging open and looking like he’s not quite bright.
Or maybe even his talent as an actor.
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So basically he owed you and acting ability had nothing to do with who he chose. Get real. Not to mention the race card yet again being played. It is the constant media blitz of comments like this that keep this country divided. Pathetic really.
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I was a bit put off by RDJ in “blackface” because of it’s history, and the fact that white actors used to put on blackface (one, because blacks were not allowed on stage) and then play these charicatures of black people (the sambo, the mammy, the bestialized and oversexed idiot etc.)– but a part from the historical significance, I thought that in this movie it was not meant to be offensive and tropic thunder was just a generally funny movie.
Also, I don’t understand the whole “black enough” or “white enough” idea– especially as a biracial woman who was raised in a different society.
** As for Diddy, I hate his guts and wis he would shut the hell up and crawl under a rock. His ego alone makes me want to puke. Maybe he wasn’t “black enough” for the movie in the same way Kim was “too black” to ever be more than a “baby mother” to him… and maybe he just wasnt a good enough actor. -
“I have not been in any of Ben Stiller’s movies. I guess I wasn’t black enough to be in Tropic Thunder.”
Has he been in any movies?
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The Robert Downey Junior reference is a joke but there may be a kernel of truth to his Stiller-related angst?
Maybe he actually wanted the role of the Alpa Chino, the rapper/actor in Tropic Thunder who gets stuck with RDJ and the rest? Diddy is to old, too recognisable and too crap an actor for that part.
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Yeah, can’t stand this self-absorbed twat but that quote is an obvious joke. He’s not seriously suggesting he should have been up for the role. But he’s still a twat.
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he equates shaving his privates with waxing??
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I feel for the women who go out wiht him. I always wish that the men I date would talk less about themselves. This guy seems to be in love with himself. Probably has a mirror carrying dude all the time and checks himself out only to whisper ‘ handsome’. He strikes me as that kind of guy.
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I was about to get annoyed until I saw that he was joking about losing the role to RDJ.
RDJ wasn’t playing a black guy in that movie anyway, so Diddy couldn’t have gotten that role. RDJ was playing a white Australian actor playing a black Nam vet. So in order for Diddy to play that role, he would’ve had to put on whiteface to play a white actor playing a black guy.
Anyone who’s offended by that movie (either because of RDJ’s “blackface” or because Stiller plays an actor playing a handicapped fella)just doesn’t get the commentary, and I feel bad for them.
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P.Poopy should just pack it in and move in with Eddie Murphey and Johnny Gill and stop the charade already.
He’s Disgusting.
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Uh no, you’re just not FUNNY, except for your squirrely stupid name, Diddy.
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P. Poopy?? Now that’s FUNNY!!! LOL
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He has that little beard because he has no chin. Seriously.
He is the perfect example of being someone so culturally ignorant of real manners that even with a big fortune at his disposal he can never quite pull off any modesty and true gentlemanly style. It just isn’t in him! -
Two things:
1. What the hell is “brow-threading”? (I’m admittedly plucking impaired.)
2. The thought of a man with his privates shaved bare sounds repulsive.
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Put P.Doody, eddie murphy & Kanye west in one room and watch the whole place combust to millions of splattered egos!
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I actually get my brows threaded. It’s an Indian technique, they literally use thread to groom your brows. It hurts less than waxing or plucking does for me. And it’s slower to regrow, and cleaner when it does. The first time stung, but it soon goes away, and I get it done every few months now. Try it, you might like it!
As for Diddy…ugh. Anyone who changes his name so much has issues.
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He was clearly, clearly, like, DUR he was JOKING in that first comment.
I swear, the reading comprehension levels of some of the people who come to this site are abysmal.
Diddy is a self-absorbed moron (as evidenced by his second comment in which he definitely was not joking) but jeez, way to jump on a person for being sarcastic.
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I was horrified that I was about to actually agree with something Diddy said (that if men are going to insist that women’s natural body hair is gross and demand that we wax it all off, they should at least be prepared to do the same), and then I realized that the ’strict maintenance rules’ mentioned in the interview apply to women he’s dating, not to him.
Seriously? He ’shaves and grooms’ and acts like he’s being hugely magnanimous, but he demands that his girlfriend be waxed bare in addition to all the other crap?
Diddy, go crawl under a rock. Forever.
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elisa: Thanks for the details. I thought I recognized the term from a book I read quite a while ago (”Kabul Beauty School”), but couldn’t be sure. Anyway, maybe I’ll try it some time. I managed to survive giving birth twice, so the pain can’t be that bad, right?
Ps: Elisa is my middle name.
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Okay. So we women have to get ALL that done and all he will do is manscape? I get it, I’m a lesbian so I would want a girl to wax too, but going through waxing your eyebrows, legs, underarms, vagina, etc is so painful that using a pair of scissors (or shaving as he said, but I doubt he does that) on your junk doesn’t even compare to what we women do.
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Some great comments in this thread, nice job everyone
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Too bad I can’t read the article because there are pix of this ugly p.o.s. plastered all over the place, blocking the article. Oh well, I probably didn’t want to read whatever ignorance was pouring out of that gaping hole in his face anyway.
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Every time I see a picture of him I think of Dave Chapelle’s impersonation and just crack up. If only this idiot could be as funny as Dave makes him, he might have a shot at acting!
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TMI, Diddy. No boundaries, dude! The only person who needs to hear this, is whoever would want to date you! If people would just shut their mouths a little bit, the gossip that does come out would be so much more FUN.
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Some of us can’t afford going to get professionally waxed every so often, P. Dildo. I know that inside your perfect little plastic bubble, that everyone has all the time and money in the world, so it’s an alien concept to you, but some of us have to afford to eat.
Idjit.
Hypothetically, if my boyfriend ever mandates
waxing, then he’s paying for it.
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I really thought my husband and I were the only people that couldn’t stand the sight, thought or sound of this “man”–we should all start a club!! There is a saying, I’m going to paraphrase here, that no one knows how ignorant you are, until you open your mouth. Also, how childish is it for him to be in the position he is and say, “I put him in my video and he didn’t put me in his movie!” No likey!!!!!!!!!!!
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Shame about the pubic triangle on his face. He might do us all a favour and give his chin a brazilian
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