Coming 2 America, Nomzamo Mbatha, but her audition tale was far from boring.“Where do I start?” the South African actress says laughing when I ask how she landed the role of Mirembe in the Coming to America sequel. “I am in Abu Dhabi.
I’m doing some work with the United Nations — as you know, I’m the Goodwill Ambassador for the refugee agency at the U.N. So I’m doing work and we’re shooting this thing and I get a call from my agent and he says, ‘Nomzamo, I need you to be on a flight back to L.A.
ASAP.’ You can send in a tape for this project, but being in the room is where you need to be.'”Mbatha admits she was hesitant to drop everything, lamenting how she’d put up money for other projects before that she didn’t land.
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