Simmons previously shared his disapproval of the Warner Bros. feature-length film set to star Shore saying, “The Pauly Shore biopic does not have my blessing”
is determined to play .
The Encino Man actor, 56, once again addressed the ongoing controversy over a on the popular fitness guru’s life during his Netflix Is a Joke show at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles on Friday, May 3.
“I’m also gonna be starring in the Richard Simmons biopic … whether he likes it or not, Richard,” Shore said at the event, per . “Just another f—— bump in my f—— road.”
Shore’s latest comments come after Simmons, 75, blasted the Warner Bros. feature-length film in a on April 24. At the time, he told fans that he “just read a man that I don’t know is writing” the biopic starring Shore and reiterated his disapproval of the project.
“I do not approve this movie. I am in talks with major studios to create my own bio pic with some help,” he said. “Wait for this movie.”
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The upcoming project was first , just as Shore’s short film , in which he plays Simmons, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival.
After the event, Simmons confirmed on Facebook that he had “.”
“The Pauly Shore biopic does not have my blessing. Some major studios are interested with me being involved in MY story. Who should play me? lol,” Simmons, speaking through his publicist Tom Estey, later said in to PEOPLE last month.
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In response to his comments, Shore shared a screenshot of and said that he was about it. “Richard, how do you not approve of this movie? I mean, really, who’s better to play you in a movie than ME?” he added.
The How It Ends star went on to say that and were not likely to play Simmons, joking, “Everyone already thinks I’m you. We’re the same. Beautiful, inside and out.”
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He also extended an invitation to Simmons to hear his and writer Jordan Allen-Dutton’s pitch for the biopic, and offered to bring “some warm matzo ball soup and a pastrami sandwich with dark mustard from Canters” to his house.
“I know you, Richard. We used to hang out back in the day,” the comedian wrote. “I’d always see you at The Comedy Store. You’re my old buddy. Richard, you’re going to love our movie. We’re going to make the most beautiful cinematic masterpiece that’s going to honor you in a way that you’ll drop to your knees and cry with joy and happiness.”
In September 2023, he believes a film about Simmons is the “biopic that America needs.”
“He helped so many people,” he said at the time. “If you read people talking about him, they’d always be like, ‘I was 400 pounds and Richard Simmons saved my life!’ He was all about positivity and helping people. And there’s so much angst and divisiveness in the world, so I think a dose of that positivity is what people need.”
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