Eddie Murphy revealed that during the 1980s and preparation for “A Prince in New York,” the studio instructed him to hire a white actor for the film.
While A Prince in New York 2 is released this Friday on Amazon Prime Video, with Eddie Murphy back as Prince Akeem, the actor is gradually returning to filming anecdotes from the first film, a cult comedy from the 80s. revealed that it was the studio that had forced him to hire at least one white actor in his film. A memory still vivid in Murphy, who confided in CinemaBlend :
At the time, in the 80s, seeing that the whole cast was made up of blacks, Paramount said to himself: “There must be a white man in the film”. I was like “What?”, And who was the funniest white guy at the time? We knew Louie was cool, and that’s how he ended up in the movie.
Murphy is obviously talking about Louie Anderson, an American comic who won the Emmy for Best Supporting Actor for the Baskets series. He is also recognized as one of the best stand-up comedians, although his name is little known outside the United States. Fans of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off may know him by sight as he appears as a cameo as The Florist (right in this video). As for his starring in A Prince in New York, Anderson says today that he got the part because he paid a hefty Eddie Murphy’s restaurant bill:
A prince in New York is a movie released in summer 1988 in France and directed by John Landis. He tells how on his 21st birthday, Prince Akeem’s parents tell him that they have chosen a wife for him. Determined to find the ideal woman himself, Akeem decides to go find her in New York. The feature film grossed $ 288 million worldwide, for an estimated budget of $ 36 million (including 8 for Murphy, also author of the story).
And since The Prince of New York is in the news, AlloCiné offers you a cowatch of the original film, online and live, in the presence of great dubbing voices such as Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Maïk Darah and Christophe Peyroux.
I reserve my place for the cowatch!
The vintage trailer:
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