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Craig Lindsey March 3, 2021Updated: March 4, 2021, 7:23 am
Paul Bates (left) returns in “Coming 2 America,” with newcomers Jermaine Fowler and Leslie Jones. Photo: Amazon Studios
In the new film “Coming 2 America,” African American cast members from three eras of “Saturday Night Live” Eddie Murphy, Tracy Morgan and Leslie Jones appear onscreen together. And naturally, the trio occasionally chopped it up about their experiences on the long-running sketch show.
“Yeah, we talked about that stuff,” Morgan told The Chronicle during a recent phone interview from his New Jersey home. “But, more importantly, what I said to Eddie and what Leslie said to me was, ‘Thank you for holding the door for us, Eddie.’ And Leslie would say, ‘Thank you for keeping the door open for me.’”
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It’s hard to believe that after 30 years the speculation of what a
Coming to America sequel might look like can finally be put to rest. The long-awaited arrival of Amazon Prime Video’s original movie
Coming 2 America is upon us and the excitement, especially in a pandemic, is, in a word, explosive. Of course, it’s been “Wakanda forever” since
Black Panther graced theaters in 2018 (RIP Chadwick Boseman), but in all honesty Zamunda was and is our first African fantasy country crush. So, it’s also “Zumunda forever and ever, etc.”