Welcome back to Zamunda and Queens.
Yes, get ready to see Murphy and Hall reviving a few more memorableComing to Americacharacters.
But what brings them back to Queens?
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Was this a big touchstone for you?Oh yeah.
I’m a kid of the ’80s, and so that means I’m a student of Eddie Murphy.
It has not been equaled; he was electrifying.
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SoComing to Americawas that movie for my dad, and even my grandmother.
It’s thatDirty Dancing."
you might even see it in my movies a little bit.
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Because it’s not just a movie, it’s a cultural touchstone for a lot of people.
McDowell’s better be in it or there’s going to be trouble!"
But we’ve got to have a heart in it.
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I think Eddie and I were excited and challenged to make it meaningful as well as hilarious.
And he finds out that he has a son in America that he did not know he had.
He has three daughters with Lisa (Headley) and now there’s this blended family that is happening.
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Not to take away from the original, because we never will.
[Laughs] We just dropped all sense of maturity and decorum.
It was like, “Can you believe that we are doing this?
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Can you believe we’re at the barbershop?
There’s Clarence [Murphy] for God’s sake!”
And it was just infectious.
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I mean, that was a big deal on the set.
And he’s just smiling because he gets to play this king one more time.
I know we’re making a comedy but it’s bigger than a comedy.
We really just were all so touched to be working on it.
My 12-year-old watched it the other day and loved it.
It’s for the whole family.
And we just hope everybody comes together and has a great time with some old friends.
Who would have thought that things could have gotten worse since you and I last talked?
[Laughs] But we really do need them now more than ever.
