Celebrity focus: Marlon Wayans revels in parody of ‘Fifty Shades’

Where some might look at “Fifty Shades of Grey” and see Razzie nominations as one of the year’s worst movies, Marlon Wayans saw something else: humor.

Friday brings the actor-producer-writer and parodist’s “Fifty Shades of Black,” which of course is a raunchy, R-rated spoof on sadistic billionaire Christian Grey and his masochistic pupil Anastasia Steele.

“Scary Movie” kingpin Wayans, 43, says his subjects just happen.

“What’s funny is it finds me. I don’t go looking for it. I don’t really think about it.

“You look and you see things and for some reason the way my mind is, I see comedy.

“If I can just start writing jokes and go freestyle and have pages of notes, I know something’s good.”

He had read the best-seller and was “going to do a parody book. Then the movie was coming and I saw the visuals and thought, ‘This will be a really fun movie.’ ”

As Mr. Black (“I wasn’t going to give up this great role to anybody else”), Wayans injects old-fashioned sex appeal alongside a racial component.

“Race and those things inside of movies are pop cultural. Racism and sex aren’t going anywhere. You see them in everyday society, and we poke fun and make light and it eases tensions.

“We are saying stuff audiences are thinking, and we give it a twist.”

“Fifty Shades of Black” has a knowing nod to “Magic Mike,” thanks to “Fifty Shades of Grey.”

“There was this little dance number he had in the house where he grabs and twists her and she says, ‘You’re a good dancer!’

“That’s a fun place to put in ‘Magic Mike.’ When you do a parody you’re always asking, What if? And when you answer it, that’s where you find your jokes.”

As for Jane Seymour’s presence, “She plays my mother.

“In the (original) movie, Christian Grey is adopted; we thought it would be fun to make her like all these other mothers adopting babies and just see where that would go.

“It gave us another complexion and another thing to poke fun at.”

Can this “Black” rate a trilogy? “I think we can. The beauty is there are two other books, there’s going to be two more movies. We’ll take a peek at that and see if it will write itself.”