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SECRETS BEHIND THE MAKING OF JASON'S LYRIC

At the core, Jason’s Lyric is a love story, at least three to four times over. There’s the dysfunctional type of love between Joshua and Jason’s parents, that starts all of the drama in the first place. There’s the familial love that keep Jason in Houston for so long, defending, rationalizing and protecting his brother and then there’s the love story between Lyric and Jason, who have to figure out a way to escape their toxic surroundings if they want their relationship to work. You know the movie, you remember that one scene…you know what I’m talking about. You might even have memorized some of the lines but you probably don’t know the behind the scenes secrets. Check them out below.

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Rated X

Remember how saucy that love scene was? I just can’t talk about this scene without mentioning the grass that was stuck to Allen Payne’s butt cheeks as he and Jada were rolling around in the hay. Well as graphic as that scene was, there was much more to it. So much that it was going to receive an X rating. The team had to trim down the sex scene and then it was an “R. Source: vineyardplayhouse.org

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Suzzanne Douglas

You may best know Suzzanne Douglas from that Robert Townsend show, “Parent Hood.” But before that, she was in Jason’s Lyric as the mother, “Gloria.” Though she played the mother to Allen Payne and Bokeem Woodbine, who played the troubled brother “Joshua,” Douglas is actually only 11 years older than Payne

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Jada didn’t trust the director

Jada was on the cusp of a very active career in the ’90′s, and decided to take on the role of “Lyric.” But just because she agreed to the role, didn’t mean that she was exactly comfortable with how people would perceive her. In 1994, she told the Philadelphia Inquirer that she didn’t know how McHenry was going to manipulate her image.

“I just didn’t trust Doug (McHenry, the director) and the vision of what he wanted to do. He could exploit an image of what people might think of me, but I wasn’t going to allow him to do that to me.”

Jada was so against McHenry that she stated she would prefer not to work with him again.

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Body double?

Since Jada was so worried about her image, it was largely reported that she used a body double during, not only the sex scenes, but the Inquirer claims that wasn’t even her kissing Allen Payne. Hmm… I don’t know about all of that. That looked like Jada to me.

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Wasn’t disappointed by what she saw on screen though

Though she was initially worried, Jada was happy with the final product. In fact, she even felt that the unedited love scene would have been appropriate. In the same interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, Pinkett said that the NC-17 rating was assigned because of racism. “There is no secret that there is a double standard when black films are rated.” Even some in the black community took issue with the scene. Pinkett said it has to do with the hangups some people have about sexuality. “There was no rape, no derogatory imagery, in Jason’s Lyric. Arnold Schwarzenegger can kill 50 people in his movies, and nobody is having a fit about that, but if you try to express a healthy physical love for someone in a movie, that’s a problem.”

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Reunited

Though Jada said that she would prefer not to work with McHenry again, the two would pair up once more when he directed Kingdom Come. Wonder what changed