Scrubs actor who invented the Fortnite dance: “they jacked that s**t”

[Nergal]

 

Donald Faison, the actor who played Chris Turk on the (brilliant) medical sitcom Scrubs, says that Epic Games “jacked” a dance he created for the show, and claims he hasn’t been paid for it. His comments follow similar complaints by hip-hop artists such as 2 Milly and Chance the Rapper, whose moves have also made their way into the game.

Faison was speaking at a Scrubs cast reunion at the Vulture Festival this past weekend, which you can watch below. When the hostess asks about the dance, Faison is – inevitably – called on to perform it. He says:

“If you wanna see it, you can play Fortnite, because they jacked that shit.”

Interestingly, executive producer Bill Lawrence says “Fortnite had to enquire for the legal… for the legality of it, and it’s fine because it’s just a character dancing,” at which point Faison cuts right to the heart of the matter:

“I don’t get no money. That’s what y’all are thinking, right? Somebody got paid? No. No. I did not. Somebody stole that shit, and it’s not mine any more.”

A little gentle mockery follows, with Lawrence and Zach Braff – who played the show’s protagonist, John Dorian – suggesting that money was received and spent by everyone else in the cast except Faison. It appears, however, that mockery is all this is: “That’s not true,” says Faison. “Nobody got money for it.”