“And then my agent was like, ‘Robert, they do one Black movie a year. You just did it. Be happy.’”
pokes a lot of fun at Black actors being told over and over again that what the movie really needs is “an Eddie Murphy type.” Can you try and explain for readers now who don’t understand the hold that Eddie Murphy had over white Hollywood’s view of Black actors in the 1980s? How big was he at that time?Like the Rock combined with Kevin Hart combined with … I don’t even know who. He was the Marvel Universe by himself, I’ll put it like that. So now you go on auditions, and it was still Boot.
”And so we have a screening for Eddie at a screening room in Burbank. It’s a 40-seat theater. Eddie shows up with 15 people, his entourage, and they’re loving the movie, laughing, laughing, laughing. And then he gets to the part, “What we’re looking for is an Eddie Murphy type.” The room gets quiet and then Keenen’s head goes down.I’m like, “Oh shit. Oh shit. Oh shit.” And then I hear one of Eddie’s bodyguards, “Eddie they said your name. Eddie, they just said your name.
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