Jada Pinkett Smith Gets Her Hairdresser After The Nutty Professor Wig

• Jada Pinkett Smith said the wig she wore for The Nutty Professor was “rough.”
• The actress said that the wig manufacturer decided that the roots should not be smooth and the hair should be straight.
• “This was the last time I didn’t have my own hairdresser,” added Pinkett Smith.

Jada Pinkett Smith said she got her own hairdresser after having an uncomfortable wig experience on the set of her 1996 film The Nutty Professor.

“They must have dressed me in crazy wigs where people really didn’t know enough about black hair to know how to make wigs and what they should look like,” she said of her own experience of filming and photo shoots on the latest news. “Red Table Talk” issue on Facebook Watch, released Wednesday.

“The Nutty Professor” is one of Pinkett Smith’s first film roles. In the comedy, she played Karla Purti, Eddie Murphy’s on-screen love.

“It was a rough deal,” she said of the wig she wore for the movie. “It was rude because the woman who made this wig missed.”

“She thought the roots should not be smooth and the hair should be straight,” recalls Pinkett Smith. “She said, ‘Well, usually black women don’t have straightened roots.” And I said, “Oh no, we do. We either straighten it with a hot comb or we do a perm. ” But she didn’t believe me. So she did it with roots that weren’t straight, but the hair was straight. “

“This was the last time I didn’t have my own hairdresser,” she added.