“The only part when we were controlled, as you'll see in the movie, was the very, very, very beginning. The movie chronicles the group from its early days, when Salt and Pepa met while working at Sears and joined forces, professionally and personally, with another co-worker, Hurby “Luv Bug” Azor. It's inspirational for women, I think, to see us just be vulnerable about how wonderful but also how difficult it was.” So, it’s the ups and downs, the highs and the lows, of being a female in music in a male-dominated, not just genre, but world, and how we navigated through that and how we survived, and we didn't become a tragic story,” Salt explains. We were friends before we became a group. “It's based on not just the music and the legacy of Salt-N-Pepa - it's also based on the friendship. The Salt-N-Pepa story will surely make the pioneering rappers’ daughters proud, as it is inspirational and aspirational for any young woman trying to pursue a dream. Our daughters play the fake Salt-N-Pepa, so they get a little cameo in the Lifetime movie,” Salt reveals. We went to a venue to do a show and the bouncer told us, ‘Salt-N-Pepa is already here.’ There's a whole moment in the movie where you see our manager going onstage and trying to stop them. “We had a moment in our past where there were Salt-N-Pepa impersonators. Townson as Salt and Monique Paul as DJ Spinderella), but both James and Denton’s daughters were given small roles - ironically, as Salt-N-Pepa impostors. Laila Odom ended up landing the Pepa part (and she did a fantastic job, alongside G.G. Everything you told me was wrong.’ I'm like, ‘ How? That was me!’” She came back out, and she was like, ‘Ma, I didn't get it. You did everything wrong.’ And I was like, ‘ How you going to tell me that's not what I did?’ So, that was very funny. She had to audition like everyone else it wasn't just getting her in the door and saying, ‘She's going to be the one.’ And the funny thing was, when she went in there to audition, they told her, ‘No, this is not it. This is how I did it when I first heard my song.’ So I'm teaching her this, and then she did the audition. “So, I'm giving her all these inside tips, one-on-one: ‘This is how I talk. “She was like, I'm going to play you, I'm going to play you!’” Pepa tells Yahoo Entertainment with a chuckle. If anything, Pepa’s well-meaning, motherly advice actually ruined Criss’s chances. But amusingly, Lifetime’s casting directors didn’t think Egypt was right for the part. Pepa even gave Criss some tips on how to get into character, which would, presumably, practically guarantee her the role. 23, they had seemingly the perfect actress in mind to play Pepa: Denton’s own daughter, Egypt Criss. When Cheryl “Salt” James and Sandra “Pepa” Denton were tasked with executive-producing the Salt-N-Pepa biopic, which premieres on Lifetime Jan.
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