Eddie Murphy's Daughter Is Making Her Film Debut in "Coming 2 America"
Comedy icon Eddie Murphy has a big family. And come Mar. 5, considered one of his 10 kids can be starring alongside him in in all probability essentially the most eagerly expected comedy of 2021. Eddie Murphy's 19-year-old daughter, Bella Murphy, makes her film debut in Coming 2 America, the sequel to his wildly adored 1988 comedy Coming to America. Keep reading to be told why Bella is just starting to act professionally now and about the scene that had her dad threatening (jokingly!) to "ground" her. And for another chip off the old block, See James Gandolfini's Lookalike Son as Tony in the Sopranos Prequel.
(*2*)The sequel—which shall be streaming on Amazon Prime on Mar. 5—alternatives up with Akeem of Zamunda and his circle of relatives more than 30 years after the occasions of the primary movie. Akeem is nonetheless married to Lisa (Shari Headley), who he met on his shuttle to New York City, and they have got three daughters. He then learns that he also has a grown son (Jermaine Fowler) from a fling he had with any other woman back in Queens (Leslie Jones), sooner than he met Lisa. Having a male inheritor complicates issues for Akeem, since his eldest daughter Meeka (KiKi Layne) would be at liberty to take at the challenge if Zamunda allowed a lady to rule.
Bella Murphy performs Omma, one of Akeem and Lisa's more youthful daughters, and she quickly fell in love with the character. "Omma is super-smart, a little bit of a bad***, and she's super-cool," Bella told Essence.
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Speaking to ET Online, Eddie shared the most important boundary that he set for his youngsters, should they need to observe him into performing. "I told [Bella] that she couldn't work until she was 18, but she started acting lessons, she was doing an acting school and stuff for maybe two years before that," he mentioned.
When she realized of the age-appropriate position in her dad's new comedy, Bella was once , but she wasn't just handed the job. "She auditioned for it and got the part," Eddie advised ET.
Not only is Bella making her debut in a long-long-awaited sequel to a comedy classic, she additionally got to have family by way of her side. "Being able to do my first film with my dad is really special," she instructed Essence. "I'm over the moon."
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"I was very nervous," Bella remembered when speaking to ET Online. "You know, I didn't want people to think that I was just doing this because I can or I didn't want people to watch it and be like, 'Oh, that's his daughter because she can't keep up with everyone,' you know?"
She also recalled a particularly stressful scene in which their real-life father/daughter dating got here through on set. During a choreographed action scene, Bella came very with regards to whacking Eddie with a bow team of workers as a substitute of striking the place he used to be ready to block. "I saw his life flash before his eyes and we were just frozen there, and I was like, 'What's about to happen?'" Bella said. "And [director] Craig [Brewer] yelled cut, and after, my dad was like, 'You're grounded!'"
Her fears about wielding the weapon extended to the remainder of the star-heavy forged, too. "I don't want to hit Wesley Snipes in the head with a stick…" she shared. "It was my first movie, and I don't wanna do that."
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"The one thing that I didn't want to do was a bad sequel to a movie that a lot of people have a lot invested," Eddie told Essence. "A lot of people grew up watching Coming to America. It's special to them. So, you don't want to taint that."
As for why Coming to America way such a lot to such a lot of viewers, the older Murphy thinks that it's because "romantic fantasy comedy" movies centering Black characters are still so uncommon. "Black people, we don't get a lot of movies like this one…" he defined. "Usually, when we see ourselves on the screen, it's heavy things…Rarely do we get just to go see some escapism."
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