Richard Simmons Has a Bone to (Bio)Pick with Pauly Shore
Rich and Weekly
Wondery
4.0 • 962 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Looks like Pauly Shore's got a new movie project. The “Encino Man” actor is set to star as famed fitness guru Richard Simmons in a new biopic. Pauly has said for awhile that he’d like to play the tank-top-and-short-shorts-wearing man who gave us “Sweatin’ to the Oldies.” And fans online have been praying for this too. Looks like their dreams will be answered. But Richard, who’s been totally off the grid for the last decade, has now broken his silence and wants to make it clear he’s not involved in the project. So will it still “work out” for Pauly to play Richard, or should he be sweating it out?
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| 0:00.0 | So, Areisha, it's only a matter of time, and it's only a matter of time, and it's definitely |
| 0:09.8 | going to happen. |
| 0:11.3 | So when Hollywood finally green lights our biopick, who do you want to play you? |
| 0:15.0 | Oh boy. |
| 0:16.0 | I think I want to do one of those two actors playing one role situation, |
| 0:21.0 | like an inverse Lindsay Lohan and parrot trap? |
| 0:24.3 | What? |
| 0:25.3 | Viola Davis and Melissa McCarthy. |
| 0:27.8 | I need both of their powerhouse talents to combine to blame me. |
| 0:31.9 | Okay, I can't wait for that to get off the ground. |
| 0:35.0 | Oh, people are going to be just throwing money at that idea. |
| 0:38.0 | Yeah, they will be. |
| 0:40.0 | Okay. It's a million dollar, billion dollar idea. |
| 0:42.6 | Barbie step aside. |
| 0:44.2 | Uh-huh. |
| 0:45.2 | Well, in other biopic casting news, they're doing a movie about the life of fitness guru |
| 0:49.7 | Richard Simmons, and the guy who's been cast to play him is definitely an interesting choice. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah and the news about the casting has been enough to get Richard who hasn't been seen in about a decade |
| 1:01.0 | to break his silence about this project. |
| 1:03.7 | I'd be, if this were my movie, I'd be like, oh no, he broke his silence to speak out against |
| 1:08.0 | this. |
| 1:09.0 | It's like terrible. |
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