CRAIG BREWER: We need it.
Long before you worked with Eddie or signed on for
Coming 2 America, what was your relationship with the original? Was this a big touchstone for you?
Oh yeah. I’m a kid of the ‘80s, and so that means I’m a student of Eddie Murphy. I try to explain to young people what that moment was like when Eddie came onto the scene. It has not been equaled; he was electrifying. Every movie he was in I went to go see, all of the S
aturday Night Live episodes I not only watched them, I taped them on my Betamax and watched them back again. So