- EDDIE MURPHY KIDS IN COMING 2 AMERICA CRACKED
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Eddie was walking to his car and he said, “So - ‘Coming to America 2.’ Are you interested in that?” I remember Arsenio walking by and going, “Whoa, wait. When this script came together just at the tail end of that movie, it was like, “Craig has to do this.”īrewer: I remember the night that we had a screening of “Dolemite” at Netflix - Eddie was there, Arsenio was there, we had a bunch of friends and family, and I think John Singleton was there.
EDDIE MURPHY KIDS IN COMING 2 AMERICA CRACKED
Murphy: He had just nailed “Dolemite Is My Name.” He cracked it over the fence and did such an amazing job.
EDDIE MURPHY KIDS IN COMING 2 AMERICA MOVIE
Released at the height of Murphy’s movie star ascent between installments of his “48 Hrs.” and “Beverly Hills Cop” films, the $288-million worldwide box office hit also marked the first time the actor played multiple roles in a single movie, a signature he’d make his own in later pictures.īut the producer-star needed good reason and good timing to come back to “Coming to America” after stepping back from the spotlight.
“No one dresses up like Axel Foley for Halloween.”ĭecades had passed since the original film, directed by John Landis, introduced audiences to Zamunda, Akeem, his love Lisa ( Shari Headley), loyal aide Semmi ( Arsenio Hall) and fan favorites like the old-timers of the My-T-Sharp barbershop and singer Randy Watson and his band Sexual Chocolate. “I’ve done over 40 movies in the last 40 years, and I’ve had movies that have been more commercially successful than ‘Coming to America,’ but I don’t have any movie that became this cult movie,” Murphy said over video chat last month. He noticed as people flocked to pop-up replica McDowell’s restaurants, and when even Beyoncé and Jay-Z paid homage, donning costumes a la Zamundan royalty one Halloween. And you've got to remember that Eddie and Arsenio haven't done this in more than 30 years, and now they're just cracking jokes and having a blast - and this is even after they've been in eight hours of makeup.Years ago, Eddie Murphy started noticing more and more fans quoting lines from his 1988 hit comedy “Coming to America,” the rom-com fairytale in which his charming Prince Akeem of the fictional African nation of Zamunda defies tradition to find true love in Queens, N.Y.
EDDIE MURPHY KIDS IN COMING 2 AMERICA PROFESSIONAL
The crew grew up on Coming to America so they're trying to be professional but they're just trying to bite their cheeks so they don't smile the whole time. It was like, "Can you believe that we are doing this? Can you believe we're at the barbershop? There's Clarence for God's sake!" And it was just infectious. We just dropped all sense of maturity and decorum. Kenya Barris is one of the most powerful men in entertainment, and we're sitting there on set and when Eddie and Arsenio walked into the barbershop as the old barbershop characters, we giggled like school children. It was probably one of the greatest experiences of my life, being able to watch them come back into these characters. We talked about how big a movie the original was for you, so what was it like as you're sitting there in the director's chair and call action for the first time on Eddie and Arsenio as Akeem and Semmi? This would be very different if there was a Coming to America that came out the year after Coming to America, right? I think Eddie and I were excited and challenged to make it meaningful as well as hilarious.
We've got to have something that Akeem is dealing with, and I think what is particularly special about our movie is the dynamic that is happening with the audience and the characters. Even in the opening couple shots you're just smiling, because you're like, "Oh, that's right, I forgot about rose petals." But we've got to have a heart in it. It's such a nostalgia celebration, especially for people our age. People will shout on the streets to us, like, "Is Cleo going to be in? McDowell's better be in it or there's going to be trouble!" So you're going to get everyone's opinions towards what it is, but we needed to get down to the essence of what's going to bring people into this movie - in addition to the comedy. Luckily I've laid myself on the tracks before with doing a remake of Footloose, so I kind of knew we can't be paralyzed by what people are going to want. The conversations that Eddie and I were having was just about, where does Coming to America sit in people's hearts? Because it's not just a movie, it's a cultural touchstone for a lot of people. Eddie is someone that you've now worked very closely with on two films, but what were your conversations like in preparation for this and making sure you did it justice? You guys want to get every film right, but I'm sure Coming to America holds an extra special place in Eddie's heart, not to mention yours.
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