Shemar Moore in
Shemar Moore in "Diary of a Mad Black Woman."
The year was 2005.
Tyler Perry had just debuted his first feature film, “Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” in which heartthrob Shemar Moore plays Orlando, a Christian mechanic who swoops in and rescues Helen (Kimberly Elise) from an abusive marriage.
The film was standard-fare Tyler Perry — faithful woman treated like dirt by angry, bald, dark-skinned man saved by muscular light-skinned man — but the most memorable thing from this movie are Moore’s awful, awful cornrows.
These might be the worst cornrows in the history of cinema. Yes, it was Perry’s first major film, but Moore deserved better than this. Surely they could have spared a few more coins for a better wig — but why did he even need cornrows at all?
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