- EDDIE MURPHY DAUGHTER WHO PLAYED IN COMING TO AMERICA 2 MOVIE
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(At least all the Zamundans look great, thanks to Oscar-winning "Black Panther" costume designer Ruth E. “Coming 2 America” easily could have been a really neat father-daughter tale – and one celebrating young Black women – yet filmmakers instead chose the rehashed route already traveled.
EDDIE MURPHY DAUGHTER WHO PLAYED IN COMING TO AMERICA 2 PLUS
'It's not something that's impossible': Young star KiKi Layne aims for a Will Smith-style careerĪmid all the fresh faces (including Tracy Morgan as Lavelle’s Uncle Reem, plus a load of cameos) and returning characters (John Amos and Louie Anderson now head up the Zamundan locale of their McDonald’s ripoff, McDowell’s), the most interesting personalities who get short-shifted are Akeem’s daughters, warrior Meeka (KiKi Layne), brainy Omma (Murphy’s real-life daughter Bella) and spunky Tinashe (Akiley Love). The young man is to be wedded to Izzi’s daughter (Teyana Taylor) as a peacekeeping ploy, though Lavelle instead falls for his new royal barber Mirembe (Nomzamo Mbatha). Akeem brings Lavelle and his mom to Zamunda – without anyone thinking of a DNA test – to begin prince training.
Akeem and Semmi return to Queens and meet Lavelle (Jermaine Fowler), a guy lacking a career trajectory. In the sequel, Akeem follows his father (James Earl Jones) as the king of the land but doesn’t have a male heir himself – and according to Zamundan law, none of his three daughters can take the crown when it’s time.Ī bigger problem is the longtime neighboring land of Nexdoria and their eccentric leader General Izzi (Wesley Snipes) – part dictator, part drum major, all crazy – who has an old score to settle and threatens war with his Shake Weight-trained army.Ī family truth-bomb drops, courtesy of a weird old shaman (Hall in a lot of makeup): It turns out that Akeem, in a drug-and-alcohol haze, had sex with a New Yorker (Leslie Jones) back in the day and he actually does have a first-born son. I’m really, really happy with it.It’s been 30 years since Prince Akeem (Murphy) traveled from the fictional African nation of Zamunda to Queens, New York, with his loyal sidekick Semmi (Hall) to avoid an arranged marriage and find Akeem’s own beloved queen, Lisa (Shari Headley).
EDDIE MURPHY DAUGHTER WHO PLAYED IN COMING TO AMERICA 2 MOVIE
“A lot of people have this expectation, like people would say to me when they found out I was doing it, ‘Don’t f- that movie up.’ So we’ve gone above and beyond what anybody would think. “I couldn’t be happier with how it turned out,” Murphy told DeGeneres. The notion of becoming king, however, is one that progressively grows on Lavell throughout the film.Įddie Murphy discussed his forthcoming film, which is the sequel to Coming To America (1988), during a 2019 interview with Ellen DeGeneres. At first, Lavelle and his mom, Mary (Leslie Jones), reject the notion of traveling to Africa to bond and connect with the rest of Akeem’s family. The African king makes it his priority to travel back to the United States to inform his son, Lavelle (Jermaine Fowler), of his royalty and heir to the throne. Akeem (Eddie Murphy) learns that he has a long lost son in America who is around 30-years-old. The Coming 2 America trailer reveals family dynamics and cultural differences for viewers to enjoy. “It wasn’t like, ‘Daddy, give me the role,'” Murphy added. “She had to audition,” Bella’s mom, Nicole Murphy, said during an interview with Wendy Williams in 2019.
Bella, starring as Omma in the film, aggressively pursued the role.
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