Coming 2 America will feature the return of many cast members from Coming to America, including Louie Anderson. However, Anderson's casting was the result of a studio mandate, according to Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall.
Murphy and Hall were guests on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where host Jimmy Kimmel asked them how Anderson came to be involved in the original film. "I love Louie, but I think we were forced to put Louie in it," Hall said. "We were forced to put in a white person."
"[The studio was] like, 'There has to be a white person in the movie.' I was like, 'What?' So who was the funniest white guy around? We knew Louie was cool, so that's how Louie got in the movie," Murphy added. Hall said that Paramount provided a list of three white actors, with Anderson being one of the choices.
In Coming to America, Anderson plays Maurice — a worker at the McDowell's restaurant where Murphy's Prince Akeem and Hall's Semmi find employment after traveling to Queens. He will reprise the role in Coming 2 America, which finds Akeem going back to America to find his long-lost son and train him to be the prince of Zamunda while dealing with Wesley Snipes' General Izzi.
Directed by Craig Brewer, Coming 2 America stars Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Jermaine Fowler, Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan, KiKi Layne, Shari Headley, Wesley Snipes, James Earl Jones, John Amos, Teyana Taylor, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Paul Bates, Nomzamo Mbatha and Bella Murphy. The film arrives on Amazon Prime Video March 5.
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