Laurence Fishburne Would 'Suit Up' for Pee-wee Herman's New Movie
You may have forgotten that the distinguished thespian who played Othello, Morpheus, and Ike Turner was once a purple chapped gaucho on a kids show. But Laurence Fishburne fondly remembers his days as Cowboy Curtis on Pee-wee’s Playhouse.
From 1986 to 1990, Fishburne shared the spotlight with a talking recliner named Chairy, a marionette bully named Randy, and the always blustery and pompous King of Cartoons on a series that Fishburne quips, “you couldn’t even get away with making today.” The brainchild of comic genius, Paul Reubens, Playhouse spawned one incredible movie, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, that launched Tim Burton’s career, and another that is slightly better than you remember, Big Top Pee-wee, if only for the star turn of Benicio Del Toro as Duke the Dog-Faced Boy.
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Now, the gray-suited oddball is back with a Netflix movie set for a March 2016 release, entitled Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, and Fishburne said he’d be “thrilled” to rejoin the old Playhouse gang, admitting that “There’s purple chaps somewhere. Trust me.” Although there are no specific plans for Fishburne to film a cameo in Big Holiday, we’ll be crossing our fingers to see an encore performance of Cowboy Curtis someday soon.
For now, Fishburne will be starring on Black-ish, which returns to ABC for Season 2 on Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 9:30 p.m.
