Pauly Shore’s hope of portraying the late health guru Richard Simmons in a biopic continues to face sturdy opposition, as Simmons’ workers and household are talking out.
Talking to TMZ on Tuesday, Shore confirmed that his long-gestating movie about Simmons ― who died final month at age 76 ― was nonetheless within the works. He additionally shrugged off Simmons’ repeated denouncements of the mission on social media.
“I know he wanted me to do it,” the actor and comic stated. “I don’t even know if that was him tweeting the whole time. I don’t know who that was.”
Shore’s feedback drew a agency retort from Simmons’ workers on social media.
“Pauly Shore has recently made comments to TMZ Paparazzi concerning his attempts to proceed with an unauthorized movie about Richard,” Simmons’ workers wrote in a Wednesday assertion. “You’ve seen here on Richard’s account what he had to say about the biopic.”
The assertion additionally included a quote attributed to Simmons’ brother, Lenny Simmons, who stated, “Dicky absolutely wrote his own posts. He worked on them a week in advance, going over and over them to get the right message.”
“What he has NOT done was to text, email or call Pauly with anything; not even to wish him ‘Good Luck’ as Pauly has stated many times,” he added.
Shore first introduced his plan to painting Simmons in a biopic in January. That month, he appeared as Simmons in “The Court Jester,” an unrelated quick movie that was screened on the Sundance Movie Pageant.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Shore stated he seen the film as his alternative for the kind of a profession comeback that his “Encino Man” co-stars, Brendan Fraser and Ke Huy Quan, have just lately skilled.
“[Simmons is] very handsome. Also, his style and my style is very over the top and spontaneous, so that’s inherent in me already,” he defined. “So you have all these things that kind of represent him already within me.”
The information prompted a uncommon social media publish from Simmons himself, who stated he was not concerned with the mission.
“I have never given my permission for this movie,” he wrote on Fb. “So don’t believe everything you read.”
Simmons continued to distance himself from the movie, and in April, introduced that he was “in talks with major studios” for a separate film about his life through which Shore wouldn’t seem.
Shore responded with a prolonged observe on social media through which he claimed he’d been “up all night crying” in response to Simmons’ announcement.
“Richard, how do you not approve of this movie? I mean, really, who’s better to play you in a movie than ME?” he wrote on Instagram. “Leonardo DiCaprio’s not gonna play you. Brad Pitt’s not gonna play you. I’m perfect. Everyone already thinks I’m you. We’re the same. Beautiful, inside and out.”
