‘She is Thick and Working That Outfit’: Rapper Mulatto Dresses Up as Ronnie from ‘The Players Club’ In Latest ‘Gram Post
The movie “The Players Club” has been making headlines over the last several days as reality stars like Draya Michele and Joseline Hernandez have expressed interest in portraying LisaRaye McCoy’s character, Diana “Diamond” Armstrong, should there ever be a reboot for the 1998 comedy-drama.
It now appears that all that chatter about who should play whom has sparked rapper
Mulatto into playing dress-up herself. On Monday, March 9, the “B-tch from Da Souf” emcee uploaded a series of photos of herself portraying veteran exotic dancer Ronnie, played by actress Chrystale Wilson.
Draya Michele‘s dream on Feb. 24 after sharing her opinion on who should portray Diane “Diamond” Armstrong, initially played by
LisaRaye McCoy, in a reboot of the 1998 film “The Player’s Club.” The reality star responded to The Shade Room’s repost of Michele’s statement of wanting to be considered for the role if a reboot were to occur shared that same day.
Hernandez felt the Mint Swim creator wasn’t equipped to play the college student and single mom who takes a job at a strip club which shared the same name as the film title to pay for her tuition, for no other reason other than the fact that Michele wasn’t her. She wrote while also tagging
The Players Club, written and directed by hip-hop star Ice Cube, is a gritty black version of Showgirls, set in a gentlemen s club where a young college student hopes to earn her tuition. Rich with colorful dialogue and characters, it s sometimes ungainly but never boring, and there s a core of truth in its portrait of exotic dancers.
Thirty years ago, this material would have been forced into the blaxploitation genre dumbed down and predictable. But Ice Cube (who also co-stars) makes The Players Club observant and insightful; beneath its melodrama lurks unsentimental information about why young women do lap dances for a living, and what they think about themselves and their customers.