![]() ![]() To look over on the set, seeing her, I had a big giant proud papa moment every day." We can't wait to see the father-daughter duo share the screen when the film hits Amazon Prime Video on March 5. "You know, if you have children, your child could do like a school play, and your heart will burst with pride. "I can't even put into words, Al," he said. While chatting with Today's Al Roker, he couldn't help but go into proud dad mode. "And I'm really proud with how it turned out." "I just really wanted to do the best that I could," she added. So, when working alongside daughter Bella Murphy in the comedy 'Coming 2 America,' those two careers collided during a rather intense fight scene. "I didn't want people to watch it and be like, 'Oh, that must be his daughter 'cause she can't keep up with everyone else,'" she said. Otherwise, she wouldn't have gotten the role."īella added that she really went to "be good" in the role. She had to really be able to - you know, to deliver. "I wasn't musclin' my kid into the movie. "She had to audition for Craig Brewer, who directed the movie," Eddie told Good Morning America. In fact, Eddie was adamant about her auditioning for the role. However, just because Bella is Eddie's daughter doesn't mean she got special treatment. Not only does the role mark her feature film debut, but the 19-year-old actually plays one of Prince Akeem and Lisa McDowell's three daughters, Omma. The sequel to 1988's Coming to America follows Murphy's character, Prince Akeem, as he discovers he has a long-lost son, but it also features his real-life daughter, Bella, whom he shares with ex-wife Nicole Mitchell Murphy. It is important for everyone to see that love and respect.Eddie Murphy's Coming 2 Americais sure to be a family affair. ![]() They were able to say married for 30 years and have a loving family. Love says: “It is wonderful to see Akeem and Lisa’s love story because they did what they felt was right and did not follow the rules of his culture. ![]() “And, on top of that, I was watching my dad do all of this right before my eyes. So, by the end of the movie I just felt very proud, empowered and inspired.” “Up until that moment I had never seen Black royalty on TV,” she says. ![]() Through playing a character like Omma, who she describes as “intelligent, serious, studios, and a bad ass but who lives in a world where her life is heavily affected by misogynistic ideas,” Murphy hopes that audiences will feel like she did the first time she watched her dad’s classic film at 10 or 11 years old. “As we watch her navigate throughout her world, we see her consistently breaking those gender rules by simply just being herself.” Bella Murphy, the daughter of Eddie Murphy, stars in her film debut as Princess Omma in Coming to America 2. “Although the system attempts to hold Omma back, she never lets those ideas define her,” she adds. “It’s important to have films like these because our stories need to be heard.” “I know lots of women can relate to the feelings that come with being silenced, especially Black women,” Murphy says of the film’s portrayal of the young women. The trio are martial arts-trained warriors, and, like Mirembe, not simply princesses awaiting rescue from their prince. Layne’s onscreen sisters Murphy (who plays the middle daughter Omma) and twelve-year-old Akiley Love (the youngest, Tinashe, who Love describes as “funny, fashionable and a tiny royal battle machine”) were also moved by the film’s themes. Nomzamo Mbatha (right) and Jermaine Fowler in “Coming 2 America.” Paramount Pictures ![]()
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