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COMING 2 AMERICA

You’re shooting the movie at the moment. How’s it going?

It’s going great. Every day I just want to go back in a time machine and talk to my 16-year-old selfI wanted to be Prince Akeem. But now I’ve got two kids and some life behind me, I find that I’m probably a little bit closer to King Jaffe, James Earl Jones’ character. There’s something that happens in this movie that touches on that same thing. A lot of people who are bringing their kids to see are going to be experiencing a movie that deals with the same thing they’re probably experiencing.

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