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Jermaine Fowlerdoesn’t remember a world withoutComing to America.
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He’s been a huge inspiration for me.
All of this is really surreal."
“Leslie and Tracy are perfect together,” Fowler says of hisSNLalum costars.
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“I wish they really were my aunt and uncle.
It’s almost like we were related at some point.
“I’m laughing because it’s still crazy,” he says, perking up.
You ain’t gonna give me any notes or thoughts?'”
I did the scene again and they said, ‘All right, thanks, Jermaine.’
And I went, ‘Ohhhhh, okay.’
“I was like, ‘What are you talking about?
I got a new baby on the way?!'”
According to Riley, word of Fowler’s audition had spread around the festival he was at.
And he said, ‘But don’t tell nobody I told you.’
So I kind of had to pretend my managers and agents at the time were breaking the news first.
When they told me, they were like, ‘Jermaine, we got some good news!’
And I was like, ‘Aw shucks!'"
“I wasn’t really too nervous doing scenes with my hero,” he admits.
“I think all you might do in that situation is be prepared.
And that’s all that mattered to me, to be honest with you.
I was super-eager to just get on set and rock out.
I was super-hungry.”
That’s a really good feeling."
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