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“Coming to America” star, 63, recently revealed that he’s only had to audition for one role in his almost 50-year career.Murphy opened up about his early days in the industry and first few gigs in the new Apple TV+ documentary “Number One on the Call Sheet.” He suggested his fame and success as an actor were inevitable – especially after he landed a role on “Saturday Night Live” in 1980.“Early on, I just knew I was going to be fa — I started when I’m around 16, I’m going, ‘I’m gonna be famous,'” the “Beverly Hills Cop” actor said in the new two-part documentary.“When I was 19, I got ‘Saturday Night Live,’ and things just started happening,” Murphy added. “I didn’t go through all of the stuff that a lot of actors, I didn’t go through auditions.”He then revealed the one – and apparently only – acting job he has ever had to audition for.“I had one audition in my whole life,” the “Boomerang” star said.

Denzel Washington has said he was part of some “real clunkers” during the 1990s after making Malcolm X. Washington’s role in Spike Lee‘s biographical epic was a landmark point in his career, for which he received two Oscar nominations. However, he later admitted he was involved in a lot of sub-par projects to keep himself going financially.Although Washington doesn’t name and shame any of the films he is referring to, he did make numerous films at the end of the 20th century that weren’t received well by critics.

George The Poet has shared a profound message to Black America for the US Presidential elections – see what he had to say below.The London-born African poet and artist took to social media last night (November 5) to urge Black America to vote carefully for the next President of the United States. In the videos – once addressed to Black America, and one addressed to America as a whole – George The Poet was careful to not side with any one party, but instead pointed out the flaws in both Donald Trump‘s and Kamala Harris‘ campaigns.In his message to Black America, George raised his concerns: “Do you vote Democrat out of fear of Republicans, or change your approach to steering your government? I don’t know if you know this, Black America, but out of the whole diaspora, you might be the most influential Africans outside Africa.

Jon Burlingame “I felt not only that it was important, but that I had an obligation to be a part of it,” says composer Terence Blanchard about writing the score for National Geographic’s “Genius: MLK / X,” the eight-part series about the lives of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Anna Camp and Griffin Matthews have been cast in “You” Season 5 at Netflix as series regulars, Variety has learned exclusively. The pair are the latest additions to the cast of the popular show’s fifth season, which will also be its final season.

Samuel L. Jackson is glad to be pals again with frequent collaborator Spike Lee.The Marvel actor, 74, began feuding with the Oscar-winning filmmaker, 66, back in 1992 after they had a fight over Jackson’s salary for the epic “Malcolm X.”The “Pulp Fiction” star was actually set to star as Baines — a character that Albert Hall was later cast in — for Lee’s drama about the civil rights activist.Jackson got candid about how his dispute with the “BlacKkKlansman” director came about in a recent chat with Vulture.“I actually read with most of the people who auditioned for ‘Malcolm X.’ But it was still down to that Spike Lee scale-plus-10 salary thing,” Jackson said, referring to the system created by the Screen Actors Guild that allows 10% of an actor’s paycheck to go to their agent.

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Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Genius” Season 4 will now focus on both Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.When the fourth season was originally announced in December 2020, it was reported that it would solely focus on King.

The Metropolitan Opera will present its second work by a Black composer, Anthony Davis’ “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X”, just two years after its first.

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Regina King has defended casting Kingsley Ben-Adir as Malcolm X.The One Night In Miami director has opened up on her decision to get the British actor – who portrayed Barack Obama in The Comey Rule – to play the African-American civil rights leader during a fictional meeting with Jim Brown, Sam Cooke, and Muhammad Ali in her new movie.Speaking to Reggie Yates during a BAFTA masterclass this week, King said: “In my opinion, I feel like the best actor for the role should play the part; the actor that truly understands the role that they’re playing.“And of course I had my own moments of thinking, ‘How are people going to (react)?’ because, as you say, this conversation is going on and it’s been going on.“But up until that moment, if I was

One Night In Miami, which portrays a meeting of Cassius Clay (later known as Muhammad Ali), soul singer Sam Cooke, American football player Jim Brown and civil rights activist Malcolm X.The film stars Eli Goree as Clay, Leslie Odom Jr.