As Lincoln Hayes in the modern-day adaptation of the ’70s hit TV show "The Mod Squad," Omar Epps realizes he has some pretty big platform shoes to fill. "Clarence Williams III defined mod," the actor says of his pop culture predecessor. "And here I come…some quirky nerd guy." Epps says he was unable to rally enough eggs and mayonnaise to grow an afro that would do justice to Williams’s long-gone legacy, but he was hip to the mod wardrobe worn by his character. And the car! It was a mint green Lincoln, high on style and bad on gas. "It had the suicide doors and everything," Epps says. "They would never let me crash it up, though, which is a drag. They had three of them. You’d think they’d let me keep one after the shoot." Epps, whose show business career really started when he landed a stint as a back-up dancer for Queen Latifah, will next be seen in the cop thriller In Too Deep, and the Wood, a buddy picture about a group of childhood friends on the eve of one their weddings.
