Coming 2 America: Director Craig Brewer on Easter Eggs and Going to Prince s Oscar Party
With Coming 2 America now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, I recently had the chance to speak with Craig Brewer about directing the longawaited sequel. During the interview, he talked about how they decided on the PG13 rating, Easter eggs, if he had a longer cut and deleted scenes, if Soul Glo was ever going to be a bigger part of the sequel, how Eddie Murphy asked him to direct the sequel, and a lot more. In addition, he talked about what it was like watching Three 6 Mafia win an Oscar for Hustle and Flow and shares a fantastic story about going to Princes Oscar party that night. In the Coming to America sequel, Murphys Prince Akeem is living a happy life in Zamunda with his Coming to America sweetheart, Lisa (Shari Headley), and his three daughters. But when he finds out that he might have a son he didnt know about living in New York City (Jermaine Fowler), and that only a male heir can take over the Zamundan throne, Akeem and Semmi (Arsenio Hall) set off on a journey to America to discover the
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