Eddie Murphy on Paying Tribute to Rudy Ray Moore With ‘Dolemite Is My Name’: ‘He’d Be Over the Moon’
The saying goes “never meet your heroes,” but the cast of “Dolemite Is My Name” did just that when acting opposite Eddie Murphy in the biopic about the comedy legend’s idol Rudy Ray Moore.
“I finally got a chance to work with one of my heroes. I’ve been trying to do it for over three decades,” Wesley Snipes told Variety at the film’s premiere Saturday night in Westwood. “It was a realization like, ‘Oh my God, I’m actually here doing a dramatic scene with the comedic master.’”
Keegan-Michael Key also admitted it was hard to stay calm before meeting Murphy for the first time. “I was really having a dialogue with myself. I’m like, ‘You got to get it together. You gotta breathe. You’re in wardrobe, just get into character,’” he recalled.
“Once we sat down and they were setting up the cameras, Craig Robertson...
“I finally got a chance to work with one of my heroes. I’ve been trying to do it for over three decades,” Wesley Snipes told Variety at the film’s premiere Saturday night in Westwood. “It was a realization like, ‘Oh my God, I’m actually here doing a dramatic scene with the comedic master.’”
Keegan-Michael Key also admitted it was hard to stay calm before meeting Murphy for the first time. “I was really having a dialogue with myself. I’m like, ‘You got to get it together. You gotta breathe. You’re in wardrobe, just get into character,’” he recalled.
“Once we sat down and they were setting up the cameras, Craig Robertson...
- 9/30/2019
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
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